Angels of Power

Following Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, writers rework images of the body, resisting those wanting to create monsters and angels.

“" Angels of Power should head the reading list of any course in ethics and reproductive technology." -Karin Lines, Editions”

"Angels of Power" should head the reading list of any course in ethics and reproductive technology." --Karin Lines, "Editions"

Susan Hawthorne is the author of six collections of poetry including Bird, The Butterfly Effect, Unsettling the Land, Earth’s Breath and Cow. She has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years and is also known as an aerialist. Two books, Bird and Earth’s Breath have been broadcast on the radio program, Poetica. In 2009 she was an Asialink Literature Resident at the University of Madras, India and she is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. Her poetry has been published in Best Australian Poems anthologies on several occasions and Earth’s Breath was shortlisted for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Award.Renate Klein is a biologist and researcher in Women’s Studies. She is widely published in the area of reproductive technology and genetic engineering. Amongst her books are Test-Tube Women (1984, with Rita Arditti and Shelley Minden); The Exploitation of a Desire (1989); Infertility (1989) and RU 486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals (1991, with Janice Raymond and Lynette Dumble). She was a founding member of FINRRAGE (Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering) and is currently active in its Australian chapter.

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