Pepsi and the Pill

Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

Melissa Oliver-Powell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-691-7 (ISBN)

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The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the Pill offers a fresh vision of a pivotal moment in European culture, exploring the many ways in which political activity and celebrated film movements mutually shaped each other in their views on gender, sexuality, and domesticity. As the specter of popular nationalism once again looms across Europe, this book offers a timely account of the legacy of crucial debates over issues including reproductive rights, migration, and reproductive nationalism at the intersection of political discourse, protest, and film.

Melissa Oliver-Powell is a lecturer in Film and Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She has previously lectured at the University of Exeter, and taught within film, literature and gender studies at UCL, where she received her PhD in 2018.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Generation Pepsi

Part I: ‘Conception’

Chapter 1. Maternal Products and the British Kitchen Sink

Chapter 2. The Mass-Reproduction of Mothering: Une Femme Mariée and Le Bonheur

Part II: ‘Gestation’

Chapter 3. The ‘Permissive’ Myth: Conservatism, Change, and Contraception in Swinging London

Chapter 4. Scene and Unscene: Reimagining Abortion in La Génération Pepsi

Part III: ‘Delivery’

Chapter 5. Whose Lineage is it Anyway? Migration and Racist Futurities

Chapter 6. Queer Communities and Queer Failures in British Film

Conclusion: Reproducing the Future

Bibliography

Filmography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80073-691-6 / 1800736916
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-691-7 / 9781800736917
Zustand	Neuware