ABSTRACT
This section reprints three short early articles on soap opera and one later historical piece, Chapter 4, which reflects on the feminist engagement with soap opera in the context of feminist television criticism more generally. In this introduction I want to offer some brief contextualisation to the short essays and the feminist defence of soap opera of the late 1970s and early 1980s, bearing in mind that Chapter 4 in some ways functions as a retrospective introduction to the section as a whole.
