The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs

Corea, Gena. The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs. New York: Harper, 1985.

On real-world reproductive technologies up to the mid-1980s. Cited in David N. Samuelson's "On Extrapolation: A Supplementary Bibliography" here p. 234. Brief, and only, description on Amazon.com (which notes HarperCollins as publisher): "Discusses artificial insemination, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and sex predetermination."[1]

On her web page, Corea notes publication in the UK, Germany, and Japan as well as the US and quotes as blurbs,

“The Mother Machine is to the politics of birth, reproduction and reproductive technologies what Susan Brownmiller’s book, Against Our Will, was to rape: A lucid, compelling, relentless visionary analysis that sounds a clarion call to which we should all listen…,” The San Francisco Chronicle’s review stated July 14, 1985. 

“This is the most important, unique, disturbing, and challenging study of human reproductive technologies I have encountered in the 20 years I have devoted to studying the scientific and social aspects of human reproductive technologies,” embryologist Robert Francouer, author of Utopian Motherhood, wrote of The Mother Machine in SIECUS Report May 1986. [...][2]

RDE, completing, 25May19