It's All in the Delivery

Auteur

Victoria Sturtevant is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler and co-editor of Hysterical! Women in American Comedy.

Texte du rabat

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women's reproductive roles and rights.

Contenu

• Introduction. What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Read This Book)
• Chapter 1. Confinements: Enter the Stork
• Chapter 2. Hysterical Fatherhood: Male Pregnancy On-Screen
• Chapter 3. Bad Pregnancies: Social Problems and Bad Seeds
• Chapter 4. Baby Bust: Infertility and Its Discontents
• Chapter 5. Shmashmortion: Terminating Abortion Stigma through Comedy
• Conclusion. It’s All in the Delivery
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index