Pregnant with the Stars - 9780804792554

Pregnant with the StarsWatching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump\nAuthor(s): Rene Ann Cramer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804792554, 978-0804792554\nSynopsis\n\""Check out that baby bump!\"" Online and print magazines, television shows, and personal blogs are awash with gossip and speculation about pregnant celebrities. What drives our cultural obsession with celebrity baby bumps? Pregnant with the Stars examines the American fascination with, and judgment of, celebrity pregnancy, and exposes how our seemingly innocent interest in \""baby bumps\"" actually reinforces troubling standards about femininity, race, and class, while increasing the surveillance and regulation of all women in our society. \n\n This book charts how the American understanding of pregnancy has evolved by examining pop culture coverage of the pregnant celebrity body. Investigating and comparing the media coverage of pregna.