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2019 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

4. Infertile Bodies: Rescuing Infertility Through the Heterosexual Love Plot

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Erschienen in: Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV

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Abstract

This chapter examines the infertile characters in the Hollywood film Baby Mama and American sitcom Rules of Engagement by focusing on how the characters are queered in relation to dominant norms. This chapter also examines how divisions are created between the female characters through infertility and inscriptions of class and race. In relation to this, the concept of straight queerness is explained further by examining what has to materialise in the narrative to enable the non-normative female characters to transition into a normative position—from infertile to fertile; non-mothers to mothers. This discussion also illustrates how the restoration narrative repositions the characters within nineteenth-century notions of domesticity and normative motherhood, which is followed by a discussion of the participants’ resistance to such conventional ideals.

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Metadaten
Titel
Infertile Bodies: Rescuing Infertility Through the Heterosexual Love Plot
verfasst von
Lulu Le Vay
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Buch
Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-17569-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-17570-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17570-2_4