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I Am the Other Literary Negotiations of Human Cloning
Maria Aline Salgueiro
ISBN: 0-313-32006-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32006-4
316 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2005
List Price: $83.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • I Am the Other is a welcome addition to cloning scholarship. It may skirt some issues or texts, but it also offers fresh readings of others that seem to have been critically flogged to death. Above all, it constitutes an extremely useful theoretical framework for future work with other literary texts in the field, including those omitted here. As such, the study will probably remain a standard reference work.
    —Science Fiction Studies     6/28/1905
Description: The idea of human cloning has fascinated writers and philosophers for centuries and has been dramatized in myths and fiction. This volume traces these fictional illustrations of human cloning from some of the earlier manifestations to more contemporary responses. Using a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, this book examines parthenogenesis and other related fantasies, and argues that cloning could be an important tool in helping women achieve a more egalitarian status. Ferreira contemplates the new psychological implication for humanity that will arise as a result of the development and application of genetic engineering and the possible implementation of human cloning.

This is one of the first books wholly devoted to a specifically literary analysis of the many issues surrounding the fantasy of human cloning, which could in fact become a reality at any moment. It makes it a timely contribution to the controversial political, social, ethical, cultural, and philosophical debate on cloning and its numerous ramifications.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    The Hell of the Same: From Plato to Baudrillard
    This Sex Which Is One: Writing Men Out in Selected Science Fiction Texts
    The Zeus Syndrome: Womb Envy and Male Pregnancy
    The Eternity of the Same: Human Cloning and Its Discontents
    The Malediction of the Clones: Huxley, Haldane, and Mitchinson
    Cloning and Biopower: Joanna Russ and Fay Weldon
    The Sexual Politics of Human Cloning: Mothering and Fathering in the New Millenium
    Conclusion
About the Author: Maria Aline Salgueiro Seabra Ferreira is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
LCC Class: 813
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