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- Title
Pregnant Discourse: “Having It All” While Domestic and Potentially Disabled.
- Authors
Kornfield, Sarah
- Abstract
The debate over whether women can or cannot “have it all” played out in two prime-time television dramas,BonesandIn Plain Sight, when their stars became pregnant and their pregnancies were incorporated into story arcs. By analyzing these doubled performances of pregnancy and their extratextual echoes in entertainment news, I argue that pregnancy discourse functions as a crucible for gender norms. My analysis illustrates how public discourse constructs pregnancy in ways predicated on gender norms that situate women as domestic and potentially disabled, activating patriarchal and ableist logics while silencing the lived experiences of single mothers.
- Subjects
MOTHERS on television; SINGLE women on television; PRIME time television programs; BONES (TV program); IN Plain Sight (TV program); GENDER on television
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2014.911233