sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain /
First Statement of Responsibility
Angus McLaren
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 235 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism