PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Wendy C. Nielsen is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University, USA. She has published the book Women Warriors in Romantic Drama and scholarly essays on world literature, Romantic-era automata, theater, the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Olympe de Gouges, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Corday, and Boadicea.
"""This fascinating exploration of the quest for mechanical life in the Western imagination is beautifully written, thought provoking, and riveting. By situating these fantasies of ""motherless creations"" within a cultural context of medicalized misogyny and slavery, Nielsen presents a deeply rich, timely study relevant for understanding today's transhumanist debates."" —Joanna Ebenstein, Founder of Morbid Anatomy ""What impressed me most about this book is its prospicience, its boldness to position itself in the discursive field between posthumanism and transhumanism...With Motherless Creations, Nielsen offers long overdue explanations about the genesis of motherless creations in American, British, French, and German literature."" –Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln,United Kingdom"
