Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. Speculative Literature and Mechanistic Progress
6. 1. “The standardized world we are facing and fearing”: Sex and Futurist Fictions 9
7. 2. “What is better, a car or a wife?”: Automobiles and Modern Bodies 37
8. 3. “A race of human machines”: Robots and Reproduction 57
9. PART TWO. Beyond the Predictive: Sex in Real Time
10. 4. “A sort of animal or mechanic immortality”: Glands and Eugenics 81
11. 5. “A spinster and a syringe”: Debating Test- Tube Babies 109
12. PART THREE. Romantic Racialism
13. 6. “Breeding a race apart from nature”: Ruralists and Conservationists 137
14. Conclusion 157
15. Notes 165
16. Index 227