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Reproduction by design : sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain
- Author
- McLaren, Angus.
- Title
- Reproduction by design : sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain / Angus McLaren.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Description
- viii, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-226) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Reproduction. Attitudes on artificial insemination. Eugenics.
- ISBN
- 9780226560694 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226560694 (cloth : alk. paper)