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Babies in Bottles

By Squier, Susan M

Babies in Bottles

By Squier, Susan M

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There is a forgotten history to our current debates over reproductive technology - one interweaving literature and science, profoundly gendered, filled with choices and struggles. We pay a price when we accept modern reproductive technology as a scientific breakthrough without a past. Babies in Bottles retrieves some of that history by analyzing the literary and popular science writings of Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, Charlotte Haldane, Aldous Huxley, and Naomi Mitchison - writings that include representations of reproductive technology from babies in bottles to surrogate mothers. It is to these images, fantasies, practices, and narratives of scientific intervention in reproduction that we must look if we want to understand what acts of ideological construction have been carried out, and are currently being performed, in the name of reproductive technology. Susan Merrill Squier shows how the imaginative construction of reproductive technology helps to shape our contemporary practices. Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor in Women's Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City, editor of Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, and co-editor of Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
1994-12-01
Publication Date:
1994-12-01
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0813521173
ISBN13:
9780813521176
Weight:
458 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
227 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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