Conceived in modernism : the aesthetics and politics of birth control /

"Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Aimee Armande (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016.
Subjects:	Family planning in literature. Pregnancy in literature. Birth control > United States > History > 20th century. Birth control > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Modernism (Literature) Feminism and literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. American literature. Birth control. English literature. Great Britain. United States. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
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Table of Contents:

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Modernism, Monsters, and Margaret Sanger
Chapter 2: "God spoke with me to-day": Prophecy, Birth Control, and The Waste Land
Chapter 3: "Sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied": Reproduction and the Modernist Aesthetic
Chapter 4: Southern Mother, Lethal Fetus; Or How Birth Control Makes a Modernist Out of Flannery O'Connor
Chapter 5: Where Alien Abduction Meets Family Planning: Personhood, Race and Reproduction in Octavia Butler's Dawn
Coda
Bibliography
Index.