The New Genetics, Genocide and Caryl Churchill

Mary E Luckhurst

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1_12

The New Genetics, Genocide and Caryl Churchill

Mary E Luckhurst

School of Arts

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This essay examines Churchill’s work in the context of eugenics and the new genetics, and argues that Churchill is the foremost theatrical interrogator of the neoliberal dangers of promoting parenting as the improvement of human capital. Luckhurst investigates Churchill’s lifelong interest in reproductive technologies and the female body and looks at her more recent scrutiny of genetic experimentation in relation to war, genocide, cloning and terrorism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Twenty-first Century Drama
Subtitle of host publication	What Happens Now
Editors	Sian Adiseshiah, Louise LePage
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	239-256
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137484031
ISBN (Print)	9781137484024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1_12
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2016

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New Genetics, Cloning, War, Human Capital. Reproductive Technologies, Genocide, Terrorism

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