Angus Mclaren: 3 books
Reproduction by Design
Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the...
Playboys and Mayfair Men
Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger...
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many...