Pepsi and the Pill : : Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969 / / Melissa Oliver-Powell.

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 i...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION Gendering ‘Generation Pepsi’
  • PART I Conception
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Index