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Author Attewell, Nadine, author.

Title Better Britons : reproduction, national identity, and the afterlife of empire / Nadine Attewell
Published Toronto (Ont.) : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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Contents Introduction -- Part One: Beginnings. 1 An Island Solution: Utopian Forms and the Routing of National Identity -- 2 Whiteness for Beginners: An Australian Experiment
Part Two: Endings. 3 "I kept on dreaming about the sea": Foreclosure and the Aborting Woman -- 4 Apprehending Loss: Maternity at the Margins -- Envoi
Summary Better Britons charts an innovative approach to the politics of reproduction by reading an array of works and discourses that reflect on the significance of reproductive behaviours for civic, national, and racial identities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-299) and index
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Subject Human reproduction -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Human reproduction -- Government policy -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
Human reproduction -- Government policy -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, British -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, Australian -- History -- 20th century
Decolonization -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Decolonization -- British colonies
Human reproduction -- Government policy
National characteristics, Australian
National characteristics, British
National characteristics, New Zealand
Entkolonialisierung
Fortpflanzung
Kulturelle Identität
Politik
Australia
Great Britain
New Zealand
Australien
Großbritannien
Neuseeland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442667068
1442667060