Reproduction by design : sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain / Angus McLaren.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

viii, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-226) and index.

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.