Taking a pregnant pause: Interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife

Louise Fitzgerald

Taking a pregnant pause: Interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife

University of Brighton

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This chapter interrogates the intersection of nostalgia,heritage and feminist politics in the highly successful BBC 1 franchise Call the Midwife in order to identify the political potential of the nostalgic mode.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
Editors	J. Leggott, J. Taddeo
Place of Publication	Lanham
Publisher	Rowman and Littlefield
Pages	249-263
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9781442244825
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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- School of Art and Media - Senior Lecturer
- Communication and Creative Ecologies Research Excellence Group
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Fitzgerald, L. (2015). Taking a pregnant pause: Interrogating the feminist potential of Call the Midwife. In J. Leggott, & J. Taddeo (Eds.), Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey (pp. 249-263). Rowman and Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442244825/Upstairs-and-Downstairs-British-Costume-Drama-Television-from-The-Forsyte-Saga-to-Downton-Abbey

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