In the not-too-distant future, England's population quality and quantity are under scientific control- Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be "vocational mothers"-or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world's most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman's defiance make a difference?
In the not-too-distant future, England's population quality and quantity are under scientific control- Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be "vocational mothers"-or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world's most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
In the not-too-distant future, England's population quality and quantity are under scientific control- Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be "vocational mothers"-or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world's most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman's defiance make a difference?
In the not-too-distant future, England's population quality and quantity are under scientific control- Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be "vocational mothers"-or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world's most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
Charlotte Haldane (1894-1969) was a journalist who advocated for
divorce reform and married women's employment . . . while also
idealizing motherhood. In 1926, the year that Man's World was
published, she married the eminent biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Her
1927 book, Motherhood and Its Enemies, made a progressive argument
for easier access to contraceptives for women . . . while enraging
feminists by arguing that only after having borne children could a
woman be regarded as "normal." She went on to found the Science
News Service, and reported on World War II from the Russian
Front.
Philippa Levine is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas,
and Director of British, Irish, and Empire Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of, among other
books, Eugenics- A Very Short Introduction (2017), The British
Empire- Sunrise to Sunset (3rd edition, 2019), and the forthcoming
The Tree of Knowledge- Science, Art and the Naked Form. With Alison
Bashford, she is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of
Eugenics (2010).
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