Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building From Assisted Reprod
This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming. In so doing, it illustrates how pregnancy loss,
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Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building
Rebecca Feasey
Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building From Assisted Reproduction to Adoption in the Media
Rebecca Feasey The School of Creative Industries Bath Spa University Bath, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-17786-7 ISBN 978-3-030-17787-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17787-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: Matt Anderson Photography / Getty images Cover design: eStudioCalamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Preface
As I came to write the final pages of an earlier book on motherhood and popular television (Feasey 2016), it seemed clear that I would follow up with an accompanying volume dedicated to an examination of fatherhood on the small screen. However, although the book proposal sits poised, ready for sending in a folder entitled ‘future research’, it has not as yet been sent to publishers. Somewhere between finishing a volume on motherhood and writing a proposal on fatherhood and the media I found myself distracted, distracted by a short blog post that I had written about the codes, conventions and clichés of the 40-something celebrity infertility story (Feasey 2014). There was a book that I wanted to read about the representation of infertility, pregnancy loss and non-traditional mothering in the media, but that book did not exist, so I set myself the task of writing what I felt to be a much-needed volume on an important media representation. Important in part because infertility and pregnancy loss continue to have an impact on women, couples and families on both sides of the Atlantic, in part because many of these individ
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