Courtney Patrick-Weber

In The Rhetoric and Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Horror Films , Courtney Patrick-Weber argues that the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth traumatizes pregnant people in a number of ways, even as many people believe the shift toward medicalization has improved conditions for pregnant people. Patrick-Weber analyzes a selection of horror films, including The Void and Black Christmas , to demonstrate not only evidence of this trauma on a visceral level, but also how horror...