Rebecca Feasey is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Communications at Bath Spa University, UK. She is the author of Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Readings of Popular Culture (2016), From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television (2012) and Masculinity and Popular Television (2008).
1. Introduction: infertility and non-traditional family building.
2. Infertility: private confessions in a public arena.
3. Assisted reproduction: family, fortunes and fertility clinics.
4. Pregnancy loss: shame and silence over a shared experience.
5. Adoption: eligibility, assessment and selection.
6. Conclusion: future research directions.