Reproduction by Design : Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Angus. McLaren
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (245 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Speculative Literature and Mechanistic Progress; 1. "The standardized world we are facing and fearing": Sex and Futurist Fictions; 2. "What is better, a car or a wife?": Automobiles and Modern Bodies; 3. "A race of human machines": Robots and Reproduction; Part Two: Beyond the Predictive: Sex in Real Time; 4. "A sort of animal or mechanic immortality": Glands and Eugenics; 5. "A spinster and a syringe": Debating Test-Tube Babies; Part Three: Romantic Racialism; 6. "Breeding a race apart from nature": Ruralists and Conservationists. - ConclusionNotes; Index. - Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the modern world. That debate continues today, and to understand the history of our anxieties about modernity, we can have no better guide than Angus McLaren. In Reproduction by Design, McLaren draws on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s an
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| ISBN | 0226560694. - 9780226560694
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