Reproduction without women: Frankenstein and the legal prohibition of human cloning

Karpin, IA; Ellison, D

Reproduction without women: Frankenstein and the legal prohibition of human cloning

Karpin, IA

Ellison, D

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Publisher:: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2009, First, pp. 29 - 48
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Karpin, IA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9326-3421	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ellison, D	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Catherine Kevin	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2009, First, pp. 29 - 48	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4438-0986-3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11767
dc.description.abstract	Putting events in Genesis to one side, the most famous nonconventional act of creation recorded in Western literature occurs in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.' Painstakingly assembled in Victor's "workshop of filthy creation", the life that emerges from this gothic setting is not confined to the plot of the novel, but oddly for a creature doomed to sterility and apparent death, produces innumerable copies across a variety of genre and media. Significant among the novels, films, cartoons, games and toys that perpetuate the creature's existence, is its presence as a rhetorical device employed in the language of ethical restraint. When legislators or advocates of varying stripe call for science to just stop, now, Frankenstein (in monster or progenitor form) makes his inevitable appearance	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Feminism and the Body, Interdisciplinary Perspectives	en_US
dc.title	Reproduction without women: Frankenstein and the legal prohibition of human cloning	en_US
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Abstract:

Putting events in Genesis to one side, the most famous nonconventional act of creation recorded in Western literature occurs in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.' Painstakingly assembled in Victor's "workshop of filthy creation", the life that emerges from this gothic setting is not confined to the plot of the novel, but oddly for a creature doomed to sterility and apparent death, produces innumerable copies across a variety of genre and media. Significant among the novels, films, cartoons, games and toys that perpetuate the creature's existence, is its presence as a rhetorical device employed in the language of ethical restraint. When legislators or advocates of varying stripe call for science to just stop, now, Frankenstein (in monster or progenitor form) makes his inevitable appearance

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