Susan M Willis

Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience

Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience

The Bbc Shakespeare Plays

The Bbc Shakespeare Plays

A Taste of Love

Helen is a 39 year old food technologist specialising in Japanese Sushi. After her husband confesses to his latest string of affairs, her marriage is over. With the big 4-0 rapidly approaching, Helen decides she must leave her frumpy image behind and have a complete make-over. It’s time for a n...

Love on a Plate

Does everyone have to fight for Love? Or can you sometimes find 'Love on a Plate?' Seven very different people are about to find out. Gathered together for a weekly supermarket tasting panel, they are all at very different places in their lives. Sarah has worked in London for nine years but aft...

Yes Chef, No Chef

Can kneading bread dough be erotic when your man is behind you nibbling at your ear? And is it always bad manners to refuse an invite into your hunky neighbours greenhouse to examine his glorious courgettes? Those are just two of the issues Katie has to wrestle with in this sparkling romantic com...

A Primer for Daily Life (Studies in Culture and Communication)

The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis' study of the consumer culture broadens the scope of cultural studies ...

A Season for Living

In the 1950s and ’60s, living with family secrets was nearly mandatory for women in high society. Charlotte Wellington and her daughter, Caroline, are no exception. When Charlotte’s husband, John, begins showing signs of alcoholism, Charlotte prays that she won’t have to go through life with her hus...

Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World, The Project on Disney

This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney...

Baking Love: A Cupcake Romance

Michelle has her hands full. With a teenage daughter to raise, an ex husband to deal with and a bakery to run, she has no time to focus on herself. In fact for the last two years Michelle has put her heart and soul into her bakery and her new life and the business is going from strength to stren...

The Bake Off: Cooking up a storm

Nicola can't believe it when she is invited to appear in the regional television competition of The Bake Off. Still reeling over her husband leaving her for a slim, pretty twenty-something, she feels her competitive side flair up when she meets her main rival - a stunning, skinny, twenty-four year ...