Overview
- Marks the first book to focus on the representation of surrogacy on TV
- Takes a multi-disciplinary approach, using queer theory to explore the representations of heterosexual female infertility
- Includes textual analysis in dialogue with audience work
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“When and how did the foetus become a commodity? When and how did motherhood become sexualised? When did having children become a socially necessary compulsion? This book offers a great read to answer these and many more questions, showing how a sensationalised emotional space of anxiety, insecurity, desperation and incompleteness is produced by TV to shape our expectations of future family life. But does it succeed?” (Beverley Skeggs, London School of Economics, UK)
“This book is a significant and indeed seminal volume on the representation of surrogacy and third party reproduction on screen. The ways in which the author and the audience make sense of the depiction of surrogates, intended parents and the much longed for biological child is a must read for those researching from within the fields of motherhood, film, television and media studies.” (Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University, UK)
“Sparkily written, perceptive and illuminating, this is a fascinating and original contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on representations of family and motherhood. Lulu Le Vay’s book incisively analyses both the place of surrogacy in contemporary culture and TV’s fascination with it. In the process, it argues convincingly that both media and academia cultures need to make much more space for the diversity of what ‘a family’ can mean.” (Jo Littler, City, University of London, UK)
“Le Vay’s timely book explores representations of surrogacy and motherhood in the media. Through a series of close analyses of TV programmes such as The New Normal and Rules of Engagement and film Baby Mama, she explores not only the anxieties surrounding infertility and the impact of reproductive technologies, but also the ways that these anxieties reflect the changing shape of family in modern life. Drawing on queer, affect and feminist theory, and through the use of focus groups, Le Vay offers an original and compelling interpretation of issues around surrogacyin popular culture.” (Kristyn Gorton, York University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
Authors: Lulu Le Vay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17570-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17569-6Published: 03 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17572-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17570-2Published: 23 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-4359
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4367
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Culture and Gender, Family