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Author McLaren, Angus.

Title Reproduction by design : sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain / Angus McLaren.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Speculative literature and mechanistic progress -- "The standardized world we are facing and fearing": sex and futurist fictions -- "What is better, a car or a wife?": automobiles and modern bodies -- "A race of human machines": robots and reproduction -- Beyond the predictive: sex in real time -- "A sort of animal or mechanic immortality": glands and eugenics -- "A spinster and a syringe": debating test-tube babies -- Romantic racialism -- "Breeding a race apart from nature": ruralists and conservationists.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Technology in literature.
Technology in literature.
Reproductive technology -- England.
Reproductive technology.
England.
Reproduction -- Social aspects -- England.
Reproduction.
Social aspects.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Futurism (Literary movement)
Futurism (Literary movement)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McLaren, Angus. Reproduction by design. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226560694 (DLC) 2011018998 (OCoLC)723529716
ISBN 9780226560717 (electronic book)
0226560716 (electronic book)
1280126299
9781280126291
9780226560694
0226560694
Standard No. 9786613530158

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