Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
Kelly Oliver
Paper, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16109-1
$26.50
/ £18.50
October, 2012
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16108-4
$79.50
/ £55.00
Read the introduction, "From Shameful to Sexy" (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner)
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About the Author
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us To Be Human; Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media; The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward a Psychoanalytic Social Theory; Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir; Witnessing: Beyond Recognition; Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture; Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy’s Relation to “the Feminine;” and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind.
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