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Title
Reproduction by design - sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain
Reproduction by design - sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain
Author
Angus McLaren
Angus McLaren
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20120316
20120316
Description
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.
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
and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and
sexologists, to reveal surprisingly early debates on many of the same
questions that shape the conversation today: homosexuality, recreational
sex, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex change operations, and in
vitro fertilization.
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
and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and
sexologists, to reveal surprisingly early debates on many of the same
questions that shape the conversation today: homosexuality, recreational
sex, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex change operations, and in
vitro fertilization.
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.
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.
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