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Radio 3,04 Nov 2013,15 mins

Series2013 Festival

Wombs on Legs? Science Fiction and the Control of Reproduction

Free Thinking

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From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and tv series have long used birth control as a metaphor for the limits on individual freedom. Sarah Dillon, from the University of St Andrews, looks at the roles for women which science fiction has imagined and asks is sci-fi sexist? Producer: Luke Mulhall First broadcast in November 2013.

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