{"product_id":"mans-world-isbn-9780262547635","title":"Man's World","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman’s defiance make a difference?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the not-too-distant future, England’s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be “vocational mothers”—or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world’s most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction    xv\u003cbr\u003e Philippa Levine\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Vision of Mensch 5\u003cbr\u003e 2 How Humphrey Was Made 25\u003cbr\u003e 3 Women and Children First 45\u003cbr\u003e 4 From the General to the Particular 61\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Voyages of Christopher 71\u003cbr\u003e 6 A People Unbound 83\u003cbr\u003e 7 No New Gods for Old 103\u003cbr\u003e 8    Reconstruction 115\u003cbr\u003e 9    Catalysis 131\u003cbr\u003e 10   Antibodies 153\u003cbr\u003e 11   Usness 191\u003cbr\u003e 12   Unreality 223\u003cbr\u003e 13 Back to the Future 255\"Haunting, complex, profound, and relevant, \u003ci\u003eMan’s World\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling novel that forwards intriguing commentary on questions of gender, race, and social order.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Remains deeply relevant nearly a century after it was first published.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eReactor Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A dystopian conundrum and an alarming read. . . . A book over which Marjorie Taylor Greene and Judith Butler could break bread, and then invite the ghosts of Michel Foucault, Margaret Sanger, and Hugh Hefner for an after-dinner digestif. It’s that weird.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“MIT Press’s splendid Radium Age imprint of science fiction spotlights yet another eerily resonant title. . . . The new foreword is essential context.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eZoomer Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The whole of human relations are regulated by science in this book, and the process appears to be successful and quite inhuman.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (1926)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A volatile admixture of feminist revelations with racially biased eugenic theorizing, nearly a century after its first publication, \u003ci\u003eMan’s World\u003c\/i\u003e offers unique insight into its historical moment—and our own.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of English and History, UCLA; Founder and Co-Director of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab\u003c\/b\u003eCharlotte Haldane (1894–1969) was a journalist who advocated for divorce reform and married women’s employment . . . while also idealizing motherhood. In 1926, the year that \u003ci\u003eMan’s World\u003c\/i\u003e was published, she married the eminent biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Her 1927 book, \u003ci\u003eMotherhood and Its Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e, made a progressive argument for easier access to contraceptives for women . . . while enraging feminists by arguing that only after having borne children could a woman be regarded as “normal.” She went on to found the Science News Service, and reported on World War II from the Russian Front.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilippa Levine is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, and Director of British, Irish, and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eEugenics: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eThe British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e (3rd edition, 2019), and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Tree of Knowledge: Science, Art and the Naked Form\u003c\/i\u003e. With Alison Bashford, she is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300212003045,"sku":"NP9780262547635","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547635.jpg?v=1767732228","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mans-world-isbn-9780262547635","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}