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

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