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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2012.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34997751*spi |
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.
