LEADER 04350nam 2200745 450 001 9910463480803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-6706-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442667068 035 $a(CKB)2670000000545808 035 $a(EBL)3291075 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001150817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12503841 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001150817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11188783 035 $a(PQKB)10273472 035 $a(CEL)447186 035 $a(OCoLC)872601314 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234019 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3291075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669939 035 $a(DE-B1597)465442 035 $a(OCoLC)870315739 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442667068 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256453 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000545808 100 $a20160913h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetter Britons $ereproduction, national identity, and the afterlife of empire /$fNadine Attewell 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 311 $a1-4426-4702-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. An Island Solution: Utopian Forms and the Routing of National Identity -- $tChapter Two. Whiteness for Beginners: An Australian Experiment -- $tChapter Three. ?I kept on dreaming about the sea?: Foreclosure and the Aborting Woman -- $tChapter Four. Apprehending Loss: Maternity at the Margins -- $tChapter Five. Shrunk in the (White)wash: Britain at World?s End -- $tEnvoi -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$zNew Zealand$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, British$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, New Zealand$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, Australian$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDecolonization$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aHuman reproduction$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, British$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, New Zealand$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, Australian$xHistory 615 0$aDecolonization$xColonies$xHistory 676 $a304.6094109/04 700 $aAttewell$b Nadine$0985886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463480803321 996 $aBetter Britons$92253415 997 $aUNINA