Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV

• Main Author: Le Vay, Lulu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Culture.; Gender.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Screen Studies.; Culture and Gender.; Family.

This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies' ability to flex contours of family, the shows' narratives work to uphold the white, heterosexual, g...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The reproduction of the family
• Chapter 3: Cultural narratives of the family
• Chapter 4: I want a baby!
• Chapter 5: Becoming ordinary
• Chapter 6: Infertile bodies
• Chapter 7: Queer futures
• Chapter 8: The Conclusion.