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Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

Angus McLaren

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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.aThat 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.aHere, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of scienceOCOs place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.aWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain. To get started finding Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 245

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226560716

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.aThat 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.aHere, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of scienceOCOs place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.aWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain. To get started finding Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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