{"product_id":"reproduction-by-design-angus-mclaren-9780226560694","title":"Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain","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. That debate continues today, and to understand the history of our anxieties about modernity, we can have no better guide than Angus McLaren. In \u003ci\u003eReproduction by Design\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angus McLaren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226560694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226560694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Angus McLaren","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086417506559,"sku":"9780226560694","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17328c3c-9995-4982-a7a0-960edd47794b.jpg?v=1769094556","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reproduction-by-design-angus-mclaren-9780226560694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}