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Title

Reproductive rights issues in popular media : international perspectives / edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Beth Widmaier Capo.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Maierhofer, Waltraud, 1959-
• Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Description

viii, 227 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This collection of new essays brings fresh perspective to the study of family planning, contraception and abortion with a focus on their representation in popular media. Topics include dramas of adoption and abortion, telling the story of the pill, Sanger's depiction in entertainment media, and a controversy about demographic developments stirred by Carl Djerassi"--

Subject

• Schwangerschaftsabbruch Motiv
• Schwangerschaft Motiv
• Recht
• Massenmedien
• Familienplanung Motiv
• Family planning in mass media
• Family planning > Press coverage
• Communications Media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : representing the reproductive rights / Beth Widmaier Capo -- Part 1. Contraceptives in the media : spreading the story. Propagating progress and circumventing harm : reconciling references to contraceptives in British television and cinema of the 1960s / Jessica Borge -- Pill and remote control : politics of contraception in contemporary U.S. quality television / Markus Schleich and Jonas Nesselhauf -- A romantic steroid or a great performance? : visual culture and the pill / Jamie Wagman -- Sex education and social media : contraception in the digital age / Manon S. Parry -- Part 2. Stories of forced adoption. In search of the new woman and the best mother : unwanted pregnancy in Gina Kaus' literary and filmic work / Regina Range -- Pregnant girls in the attic-no choices : an analysis of Patrice Toye's Little Black Spiders / Kirsten E. Kumpf Baele and Sofie Decock -- Part 3. Form unplanned to planned pregnancies. From unwanted to wanted pregnancy : pregnancy, abortion and the end of the GDR in the film Jana and Jan (1992) / Belinda Carstens-Wickham -- Finding humor in birth control : fiction and film from Hugh Mills to Matthias Schweighofer / Waltraud Maierhofer -- Part 4. Abortion across cultures : reproductive choice, duty or crime. When abortion was illegal : remembrance and advocacy in recent films from Romania and Mexico : and "I had an abortion" storytelling on the web / Waltraud Maierhofer -- The forbidden pregnancy and the abandoned children : on Mo Yan's fiction about the one-child policy and abortion in China / Shelley W. Chan -- Part 5. Legacies. Woman rebel : Margaret Sanger and American popular culture / Beth Widmaier Capo -- From the pill to the pen to the pill, again : Carl Dejassi's discursive constructions of birth control / Walter Grunzweig.

ISBN

• 9781476669403
• 1476669406

LCCN

• ^^2017020235
• 40027439778

OCLC

984286816

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library