The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973
In the long 1960s, struggles for the rights to abortion, contraception and reproduction itself gathered momentum. This book explores reproduction in American literature and film produced between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, and argues that writers and filmmakers of this period engaged with th...
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Edinburgh University Press
2025
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