Comments on: What’s Up With Hollywood Part 2 http://storklawyer.com/blog/2009/01/07/whats-up-with-hollywood-part-2/ Elizabeth Swire Falker Esq., P.C. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:25:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Evelina Sterling http://storklawyer.com/blog/2009/01/07/whats-up-with-hollywood-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Evelina Sterling Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:40 +0000 http://storklawyer.com/?p=127#comment-35 Liz-- What a wonderful idea! I'm very interested in exploring the media representations of infertility too. In fact, I'm working on a paper now looking at the representations of infertility in popular print media from 1960 (a whole decade before IVF) until the mid-2000s. We have come a long way in the cultural understanding of infertility during this time period. For example, just in our lifetime alone we went from thinking 30 was too old to have a baby (there is even a documentary called "Joan at 30" which follows an "old" woman age 30 who is pregnant) to now when people don't blink an eye when they read that a 50 year old woman gave birth to a baby or two (they even say to me...you don't know FOR SURE that she didn't use her own eggs!). Anyway, if you want to get your project off the ground, give me a call, I would love to help. Perhaps we can even get something published on this topic for the world to read! I think all of these inaccuracies do a big disservice to those going through infertility as well as our field in general. Just let me know and good luck! All the best, Evelina W. Sterling, PhD, MPH, CHES www.myfertilityplan.com Liz–

What a wonderful idea! I’m very interested in exploring the media representations of infertility too. In fact, I’m working on a paper now looking at the representations of infertility in popular print media from 1960 (a whole decade before IVF) until the mid-2000s.

We have come a long way in the cultural understanding of infertility during this time period. For example, just in our lifetime alone we went from thinking 30 was too old to have a baby (there is even a documentary called “Joan at 30″ which follows an “old” woman age 30 who is pregnant) to now when people don’t blink an eye when they read that a 50 year old woman gave birth to a baby or two (they even say to me…you don’t know FOR SURE that she didn’t use her own eggs!).

Anyway, if you want to get your project off the ground, give me a call, I would love to help. Perhaps we can even get something published on this topic for the world to read! I think all of these inaccuracies do a big disservice to those going through infertility as well as our field in general. Just let me know and good luck!

All the best,
Evelina W. Sterling, PhD, MPH, CHES
http://www.myfertilityplan.com

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