Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representing 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. From 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 Schweighöfer (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 Djerassi’s
Discursive Constructions of Birth Control (Walter Grünzweig)
About the Contributors
Index