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The simultaneous publication in 1992 of two texts dealing with a global decline in sperm potency, P. D. James's The Children of Men and Elisabeth Carlsen's "Evidence for Decreasing Quality of Semen during the Past 50 Years," inaugurates the exploration of another kind of sterility: the failure of feminist literary criticism and feminist science studies to converge as a fertile zone of inquiry and analysis. This article considers the modern discipline of literary studies, as well as feminist literary criticism and feminist science studies, and suggests how Latour's seven rules of method might be adapted to produce cross-fertilization between these fields...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Networking Liminality -- 1. The Uses of Literature for Feminist Science Studies: Tracing Liminal Lives -- 2. The Cultured Cell: Life and Death at Strangeways -- 3. The Hybrid Embryo and Xenogenic Desire -- 4. Giant Babies: Graphing Growth in the Early Twentieth Century -- 5. Incubabies and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of Reproduction and Age Extension -- 6. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative -- 7. Liminal Performances of Aging: From Replacement to Regeneration -- Coda: The Pluripotent Discourse of Stem Cells: Liminality, Reflexivity, and Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index