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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaren, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
Technology in literature.
Reproductive technology > England.
Reproduction > Social aspects > England.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Futurism (Literary movement)
Technologie dans la littérature.
Reproduction > Innovations > Angleterre.
Reproduction > Aspect social > Angleterre.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Futurisme (Mouvement littéraire)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
English literature
Reproductive technology
Technology in literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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