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Historically, in patriarchal societies women have been excluded from their sexual and reproductive processes, from the origins of biomedical and anatomical practices to the use of the latest reproductive technologies. This chapter offers the analysis of three contemporary British science fiction novels—Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion (2012), Helen Sedwick’s The Growing Season (2017), and Joanna Kavenna’s The Birth of Love (2010)—with a special focus on the representation of the exclusion of women in three main fields of sexuality: the control of female sexuality and reproduction, gestation, and childbirth. This chapter highlights the systemic violence inflicted on the female reproductive bodies and calls for visibility, healing, and change to prevent the dystopian situations the three British novelists narrate.

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Reproductive Processes and Systemic Violence in Three Contemporary British SF Novels: The Birth of Love, Intrusion, and The Growing Season

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    2026年

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  • Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

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Historically, in patriarchal societies women have been excluded from their sexual and reproductive processes, from the origins of biomedical and anatomical practices to the use of the latest reproductive technologies. This chapter offers the analysis of three contemporary British science fiction novels—Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion (2012), Helen Sedwick’s The Growing Season (2017), and Joanna Kavenna’s The Birth of Love (2010)—with a special focus on the representation of the exclusion of women in three main fields of sexuality: the control of female sexuality and reproduction, gestation, and childbirth. This chapter highlights the systemic violence inflicted on the female reproductive bodies and calls for visibility, healing, and change to prevent the dystopian situations the three British novelists narrate.