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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811170303321

Autore

Attewell Nadine

Titolo

Better Britons : reproduction, national identity, and the afterlife of empire / / Nadine Attewell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6707-9

1-4426-6706-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

304.6094109/04

Soggetti

Human reproduction - Government policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Human reproduction - Government policy - New Zealand - History - 20th century

Human reproduction - Government policy - Australia - History - 20th century

National characteristics, British - History - 20th century

National characteristics, New Zealand - History - 20th century

National characteristics, Australian - History - 20th century

Decolonization - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 20th century

Neuseeland

Grossbritannien

Australien

New Zealand

Great Britain

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part One: Beginnings. 1 An Island Solution: Utopian Forms and the Routing of National Identity -- 2 Whiteness for Beginners: An Australian Experiment.

Part Two: Endings. 3 "I kept on dreaming about the sea": Foreclosure and the Aborting Woman -- 4 Apprehending Loss: Maternity at the



Margins -- Envoi.

Sommario/riassunto

Better Britons charts an innovative approach to the politics of reproduction by reading an array of works and discourses that reflect on the significance of reproductive behaviours for civic, national, and racial identities.