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Subject(s)

• Nature—Effect of human beings on. [Browse]
• Children [Browse]
• Global environmental change [Browse]
• Human ecology [Browse]
• Feminist theory [Browse]

Summary note

Bringing together queer theory, ecocriticism, and science studies, The Child to Come draws on and extends arguments in childhood studies about the interweaving of the child with the life sciences. Sheldon reveals that neither life nor the child are what they used to be. Under pressure from ecological change, artificial reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and the neoliberalization of the economy, the queerly human child signals something new: the biopolitics of reproduction. By promising the pliability of the body's vitality, the pregnant woman and the sacred child have become the paradigmatic figures for twenty-first century biopolitics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2016).

Contents

• Introduction: face
• Future
• Life
• Planet
• Birth
• Labor
• Conclusion: child.

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ISBN

• 9781452953090 ((electronic bk.))
• 1452953090 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781452953083 ((electronic bk.))
• 1452953082 ((electronic bk.))

LCCN

2016020064

OCLC

948670726

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