Reproductive Dystopia is drawn from a book project of the same name that treats a bestselling genre of Anglophone literary fiction – the dystopian novel – and considers its cultural and political affordances. The project reveals that a significant subset of dystopian novels speak directly and eloquently to questions of both reproductive dispossession and reproductive freedom. In so doing, Reproductive Dystopia both identifies and theorizes a major dystopian sub-genre comprised of narratives set in near and far futures in which profound exploitation of the reproductive body, its processes (ovulation, gestation, parturition, lactation), and its biological products (babies, eggs, stem cells) figure centrally.
