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* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. [[Motherlines]] (detailed childbirth scene) | * [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]. ''[[Barrayar]],'' "The Mountains of Mourning" in ''[[Borders of Infinity]]'' and several other [[Miles Vorkosigan]] novels. (cultural clash between "modern women" who use uterine replicators and "old-fashioned" women who insist on "body births," which the modern women consider absurdly dangerous. | ||
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. ''[[Motherlines]]'' (detailed childbirth scene) | |||
* [[Suzette Haden Elgin]]. (Woman tortured during childbirth) | * [[Suzette Haden Elgin]]. (Woman tortured during childbirth) | ||
* [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]. "[[Jubilee's Story]]" | * [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]. "[[Jubilee's Story]]," "[[The Man Who Was Pregnant]]" | ||
* [[Gabrielle's Hope]] episode of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] - Gabrielle gives birth | |||
* Existence episode of [[The X-Files]] - Scully gives birth | |||
* [[In Arcadia Ego]] episode of [[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]] - another birth scene | |||
* "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant; they progress basically to labor & then poof - no pregnancies | |||
* Angel season 4 - Cordelia is pregnant (again); she ''does'' give birth & then lapses into a coma. | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[dying during childbirth]] | |||
[[Category:Reproduction themes]] | |||
[[category:Themes and tropes by name]] | |||
Latest revision as of 10:22, 8 June 2010
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Barrayar, "The Mountains of Mourning" in Borders of Infinity and several other Miles Vorkosigan novels. (cultural clash between "modern women" who use uterine replicators and "old-fashioned" women who insist on "body births," which the modern women consider absurdly dangerous.
- Suzy McKee Charnas. Motherlines (detailed childbirth scene)
- Suzette Haden Elgin. (Woman tortured during childbirth)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn. "Jubilee's Story," "The Man Who Was Pregnant"
- Gabrielle's Hope episode of Xena: Warrior Princess - Gabrielle gives birth
- Existence episode of The X-Files - Scully gives birth
- In Arcadia Ego episode of Millennium - another birth scene
- "Expecting" (Angel 1x12) - Cordelia & other women wake up pregnant; they progress basically to labor & then poof - no pregnancies
- Angel season 4 - Cordelia is pregnant (again); she does give birth & then lapses into a coma.