Sophie A. Jones is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Remarkable in its insight, Sophie A. Jones’s The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959-1973 investigates a range of texts from the long 1960s to demonstrate the role of reproductive contingency in cultural and biological reproduction. This timely analysis offers an original contribution to American literary and cultural studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Reproductive Contingency in the Long 1960s1. Resisting Reproductive Foreclosure: Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959)2. The Birth Film and the Grid: Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving (1959)3. Reproducing Revolutionary Road (1961): Repetition and Pronatalism in Yates’s Fiction4. Prosthetic Pregnancies: Reproducing Disability in Plath and Rosemary’s Baby (1962-8)5. Transcending the Maternal Medium: Foetal Images in Nilsson, Sharits and Kubrick (1965-8)Conclusion: Abortive Space, Abortive Time: Abortion and the Journey in Literature before RoeNotesBibliographyIndex

Sophie A. Jones is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Remarkable in its insight, Sophie A. Jones’s The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959-1973 investigates a range of texts from the long 1960s to demonstrate the role of reproductive contingency in cultural and biological reproduction. This timely analysis offers an original contribution to American literary and cultural studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Reproductive Contingency in the Long 1960s1. Resisting Reproductive Foreclosure: Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959)2. The Birth Film and the Grid: Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving (1959)3. Reproducing Revolutionary Road (1961): Repetition and Pronatalism in Yates’s Fiction4. Prosthetic Pregnancies: Reproducing Disability in Plath and Rosemary’s Baby (1962-8)5. Transcending the Maternal Medium: Foetal Images in Nilsson, Sharits and Kubrick (1965-8)Conclusion: Abortive Space, Abortive Time: Abortion and the Journey in Literature before RoeNotesBibliographyIndex

Sophie A. Jones is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Remarkable in its insight, Sophie A. Jones’s The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959-1973 investigates a range of texts from the long 1960s to demonstrate the role of reproductive contingency in cultural and biological reproduction. This timely analysis offers an original contribution to American literary and cultural studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Reproductive Contingency in the Long 1960s1. Resisting Reproductive Foreclosure: Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959)2. The Birth Film and the Grid: Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving (1959)3. Reproducing Revolutionary Road (1961): Repetition and Pronatalism in Yates’s Fiction4. Prosthetic Pregnancies: Reproducing Disability in Plath and Rosemary’s Baby (1962-8)5. Transcending the Maternal Medium: Foetal Images in Nilsson, Sharits and Kubrick (1965-8)Conclusion: Abortive Space, Abortive Time: Abortion and the Journey in Literature before RoeNotesBibliographyIndex