04350nam 2200745 450 991046348080332120200520144314.01-4426-6706-010.3138/9781442667068(CKB)2670000000545808(EBL)3291075(SSID)ssj0001150817(PQKBManifestationID)12503841(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001150817(PQKBWorkID)11188783(PQKB)10273472(CEL)447186(OCoLC)872601314(CaBNVSL)slc00234019(MiAaPQ)EBC3291075(MiAaPQ)EBC4669939(DE-B1597)465442(OCoLC)870315739(DE-B1597)9781442667068(Au-PeEL)EBL4669939(CaPaEBR)ebr11256453(EXLCZ)99267000000054580820160913h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetter Britons reproduction, national identity, and the afterlife of empire /Nadine AttewellToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (337 p.)1-4426-4702-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. An Island Solution: Utopian Forms and the Routing of National Identity -- Chapter Two. Whiteness for Beginners: An Australian Experiment -- Chapter Three. “I kept on dreaming about the sea”: Foreclosure and the Aborting Woman -- Chapter Four. Apprehending Loss: Maternity at the Margins -- Chapter Five. Shrunk in the (White)wash: Britain at World’s End -- Envoi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index In 1932, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, his famous novel about a future in which humans are produced to spec in laboratories. Around the same time, Australian legislators announced an ambitious experiment to “breed the colour” out of Australia by procuring white husbands for women of white and indigenous descent. In this study, Nadine Attewell reflects on an assumption central to these and other policy initiatives and cultural texts from twentieth-century Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: that the fortunes of the nation depend on controlling the reproductive choices of citizen-subjects.Better Britons charts an innovative approach to the politics of reproduction by reading an array of works and discourses – from canonical modernist novels and speculative fictions to government memoranda and public debates – that reflect on the significance of reproductive behaviours for civic, national, and racial identities. Bringing insights from feminist and queer theory into dialogue with work in indigenous studies, Attewell sheds new light on changing conceptions of British and settler identity during the era of decolonization.Human reproductionGovernment policyGreat BritainHistory20th centuryHuman reproductionGovernment policyNew ZealandHistory20th centuryHuman reproductionGovernment policyAustraliaHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, BritishHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, New ZealandHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, AustralianHistory20th centuryDecolonizationGreat BritainColoniesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Human reproductionGovernment policyHistoryHuman reproductionGovernment policyHistoryHuman reproductionGovernment policyHistoryNational characteristics, BritishHistoryNational characteristics, New ZealandHistoryNational characteristics, AustralianHistoryDecolonizationColoniesHistory304.6094109/04Attewell Nadine985886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463480803321Better Britons2253415UNINA