TY  - BOOK
AU  - Attewell,Nadine
TI  - Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire 
SN  - 9781442647022
AV  - HQ766.5.G7 .A884 2014
U1  - 304.6094109/04 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Human reproduction
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Australia
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - National characteristics, Australian
KW  - National characteristics, British
KW  - National characteristics, New Zealand
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part One: Beginnings --; Chapter One. An Island Solution: Utopian Forms and the Routing of National Identity --; Chapter Two. Whiteness for Beginners: An Australian Experiment --; Part Two: Endings --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442667068
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442667068
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442667068/original
ER  -