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Bringing Up Baby: The Desperate Housewives' Guide to TV's Childbearing Tropes
Welcome to Wisteria Lane, where every neighbor is a potential killer, every friend a potential enemy, and every woman victim to TV’s most overused childbearing tropes. Join me as we take a tour of...
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Bringing Up Baby: Stay Away From That Tuna! (Or I'll Take Your Baby)
During last week’s episode of Parenthood, Julia panicked because Zoe—the young woman carrying the baby Julia plans to adopt—is caught eating sushi. With tuna.After googling the relative safety of...
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Bringing Up Baby: The Overrepresentation of Fatherhood in TVLand
In today's complex television landscape, it's easy to argue that traditional conceptions of "parenthood" are changing as we see fewer heteronormative nuclear families, which reflects demographic and...
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Bringing Up Baby: Women of Color with Wailing Babies in TVLand
To date, I’ve written 19 posts about representations of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care in the media. I’ve proffered examples from a variety of television series and films: Up All Night, The...
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Bringing Up Baby: The Terrifying, Transformational Birth Scene Showdown:...
My grandma tells me that she still has nightmares about the birth scene in Rosemary’s Baby (1968). I’d better tell her to skip Twilight: Breaking Dawn, which opened worldwide last weekend.Deep breath....
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Bringing Up Baby: Pregnancy (and Zombies) Are Scary on The Walking Dead
I’m having a bad day. Last night, I had a nightmare about the Bella Swan birth scene from Breaking Dawn. (To summarize: I was Bella.) I’m suffering from BSO, birth scene overload. It all seems so...
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Bringing Up Baby: Reagan's Cesarean on Up All Night and the Issue of Control...
Dr. Joseph DeLee, the grandfather of modern obstetric medicine in the United States, believed that childbirth is a dangerous disease that must be managed and controlled. “It strikes physicians as well...
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Bringing Up Baby: Farewell And Thanks From Bringing Up Baby!
This is my final post for Bringing Up Baby! I want to thank you wonderful readers for making this experience so enriching and enlightening. I’m grateful for the comments, examples, and leads, and I...
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Sm{art}: Eve Arnold
The first week of the new year brought with it the passing of Eve Arnold, one of the first women to earn recognition as a photojournalist in the mid-twentieth century. Though she is perhaps best known...
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Women's Work: It's Quittin' Time
We've come to my last entry for Women's Work, my guest blog exploring TV portrayals of women in the workforce. Thanks so much for reading, for commenting on, and for sharing these stories. I began with...
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