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This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues
against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the
logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction. Against
conceptions of Procreative Beneficence that trade on a disregard
for the gifts of maternal bodies, it seeks to recover a thought of
maternal giving and a more hospitable ethic of generational
beneficence. Exploring themes of responsibility, gift and natality,
the book refigures the experience of reproduction as the site of an
ethical response to future generations, where refusal to choose
one's children is one virtuous response. The book will appeal to
anyone with an interest in reproductive ethics, feminist thought
and those seeking principled grounds for resisting the technologies
of choosing children.
Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a
genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original
readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering
an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first
century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin,
Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing
record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's
desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused. Presenting
notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new
accounts of key Victorian texts, including The Picture of Dorian
Gray, On the Origin of Species, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics,
and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of
compiling and using data. In this way, Notework recasts information
collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into
focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization.
Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its
nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable,
improvised, and fleeting written gestures.
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