I Am the Other: Literary Negotiations of Human Cloning issue 85

The idea of human cloning has fascinated writers and philosophers for centuries and has been dramatized in myths and fiction. This volume traces these fictional illustrations of human cloning from some of the earlier manifestations to more contemporary responses. Using a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, this book examines parthenogenesis and other related fantasies, and argues that cloning could be an important tool in helping women achieve a more egalitarian status. Ferreira contemplates the new psychological implication for humanity that will arise as a result of the development and application of genetic engineering and the possible implementation of human cloning. This is one of the first books wholly devoted to a specifically literary analysis of the many issues surrounding the fantasy of human cloning, which could in fact become a reality at any moment. It makes it a timely contribution to the controversial political, social, ethical, cultural, and philosophical debate on cloning and its numerous ramifications. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1 “The Hell of the Same”: From Plato to Baudrillard......Page 32 2 “This Sex Which Is One”: Writing Men Out in Selected Science Fiction Texts......Page 82 3 The Zeus Syndrome: Womb Envy and Male Pregnancy......Page 120 4 The Eternity of the Same: Human Cloning and Its Discontents......Page 156 5 “The Malediction of the Clones”: Huxley, Mitchison, and Haldane......Page 184 6 Cloning and Biopower: Joanna Russ and Fay Weldon......Page 202 7 The Sexual Politics of Human Cloning : Mothering and Fathering in the New Millennium......Page 224 Conclusion......Page 262 Works Cited......Page 274 Index......Page 300