Reproduction by design
Subtitle: sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain
By: Angus McLaren
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780226560694
Subjects: English literature; Reproduction; Technology in literature; History and criticism; Futurism (Literary movement); Reproductive technology
Description: Here, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Speculative literature and mechanistic progress; title: "The standardized world we are facing and fearing": sex and futurist fictions; title: "What is better, a car or a wife?": automobiles and modern bodies; title: "A race of human machines": robots and reproduction; title: Beyond the predictive: sex in real time; title: "A sort of animal or mechanic immortality": glands and eugenics; title: "A spinster and a syringe": debating test-tube babies; title: Romantic racialism; title: "Breeding a race apart from nature": ruralists and conservationists.