Further Reading

Podcast Episode

Beatrice Adler-Bolton, ‘Repro Utopia w/ Sophie Lewis’, Death Panel [LINK]

Disabilities Studies scholar Beatrice Adler-Bolton interviews utopian writer Sophie Lewis. They discuss the politics of reproductive justice and how the management of reproduction is essential to capitalism. I also recommend the book Health Communism, written by Adler-Bolton and her Death Panel co-host Artie Vierkant, as well as Sophie’s books Full Surrogacy Now and Abolish the Family.

Magazine Article

Rose Macaulay, ‘Some Problems of a Woman’s Life’, Good Housekeeping (1923) [LINK]

A very short think piece which Macaulay wrote about house work. This gives a sense of Macaulay’s relationship to reproductive labour (child care and home making), as well as an insight into her journalistic style.

Academic Article

James Purdon, ‘Rose Macaulay and Propaganda’, Modernist Cultures, 16:4 (2021) 449-468. [LINK]

James Purdon discusses the significance of propaganda to Rose Macaulay’s writing. He argues that she is an important figure in the history of literature’s representation of, and relationship to propaganda, and that her novels are more sympathetic to propaganda efforts than those of many of her modernist contemporaries.

Academic Book

ed. Kate Macdonald, Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity (2017) [LINK]

Kate Macdonald has edited a collection of essays about Rose Macaulay’s writing. These include discussions of gender, genre and journalism in Macaulay’s novels including discussions of What Not and her other First World War novels.

Background Reading

Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1998) [LINK]

This book gives a very good breakdown of how reproductive control by the state involves both bans on abortions and forced sterilization. In it Roberts shows how central reproductive control is to the maintenance of white supremacy and the policing of Black people in the US (although her ideas are also applicable elsewhere).