Babies in Bottles

By: Susan M. Squier

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Paperback | 1 December 1994

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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.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls History Medicine Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences Human Reproduction, Growth & Development Reproductive Medicine Infertility & Fertilisation

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reproductive Technology and Representation	p. 1
Babies in Bottles and Tissue-Culture Kings: The Role of Analogy in the Development of Reproductive Technology	p. 24
The Ectogenesis Debate and the Cyborg: Imaging the Pregnant Body	p. 63
Sex Selection, Intersexuality, and the Double Bind of Female Modernism	p. 100
Embryos Are Like Photographic Film: RTs and VTs in the Fiction of Aldous Huxley	p. 133
From Guinea Pigs to Clone Mums: Naomi Mitchison's Parables of Feminist Science	p. 168
Notes	p. 201
Index	p. 251
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