People Will Talk, Frogs, and Vintage Pregnancy Books
As many of you may know, I really love to analyze both printed texts and films for what they have to say about changing societal contexts. (Heck, I love it so much that it's essentially what I got my first post-undergrad degree in!) Well, as I've officially hit third trimester, I've decided it's a good time to do a dive into some movies, both older and newer, that feature pregnancy. I was inspired to choose People Will Talk , a film from 1951 starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, as my first movie because I also managed to find a vintage pregnancy book from the era a few months ago at a local used bookstore. The book, The Story of Human Birth by Dr. Alan Frank Guttmacher, was first published under its title in 1947, and I think together these texts say a lot about pregnancy and norms from the late 1940s and early 1950s.