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The
Birth Machine (Women's Press 1983; Revised edition, 'The Author's
Cut', Starling 1996)
White
rats in the lab, a murder deep in the past, Zelda strapped to a
bed in a high-tech maternity ward and some mysteries about to unravel.
Adapted
by Elizabeth Baines and broadcast as a
play for Radio 4
What
other people have said about the book:
'The
birth myth of our age' - IN DUBLIN
'A gripping, pithy book' - Katy Campbell
'An increasingly powerful narrative... Sharp satire - TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT
Read
about the publication of the two editions on Eizabeth's
blog
Discussions
of The Birth Machine can be found in the following publications:
Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic by Lucy Armitt
(Macmillan, 2000)
Feminism After Postmodernism
by Marysia Zalewski (Routledge, 2000)
Reproducing the Womb by Alice E Adams (Cornell University
Press, 1994)
Women Writing Childbirth by Tess Cosslett (Manchester
University Press, 1994)
The Witch in History by Diane Purkiss (Routledge, 1996)
Lost in Space - Probing Feminist Science Fiction & Beyond
by Marleen S Barr, The University of North Carolina Press, 1993
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