Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 5-23-2018 Labor and Delivery: Television Performances By Pregnant Actresses From 1948-2016 Evleen Michelle Nasir Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Television Commons, Theatre and Performance Studies Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Nasir, Evleen Michelle, "Labor and Delivery: Television Performances By Pregnant Actresses From 1948-2016" (2018). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4598. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4598 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. LABOR AND DELIVERY: TELEVISION PERFORMANCES BY PREGNANT ACTRESSES FROM 1948-2016 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The School of Theatre by Evleen Michelle Nasir B.A., Texas A&M University M.A., Texas A&M University August 2018 to my parents for their love and support, to Kirsten for convincing me & to Kevin for everything ii Acknowledgements This project came out of a research trip in 2011. While working in the Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection as a research assistant for my then mentor and now friend Dr.