Though soap operas often get a bad rap, they represent an important part of entertainment history. Smithsonian has described them as “[shaping] American culture” over the past 70 years, and they have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I’ve always been interested in why soaps are looked down upon. It feels intrinsically linked to sexism,” says Levinsky. “It’s so ...

The soap opera started in the 1930s on radio and remains a fixture today in various formats. How has the soap opera influenced its viewers and society over all these decades? Dr. Matt Donahue and Dr.

From their earliest days, soap operas have primarily catered to female viewers, and few people know more about this phenomenon than Mara Levinsky, the Executive Editor at Soap Opera Digest (one of ...