Susan Merrill Squier

My research interests include the cultural studies of science and medicine, feminist theory, modern literature and culture, disability studies, animal studies, and comics. My publications reflect these diverse interests: Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City (1985); Babies in Bottles: Twentieth Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (1994) and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (2004).  I am also editor of Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism (1984) and Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (2003), and the co-editor of Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation (with Helen M. Cooper and Adrienne A. Munich, 1989) and Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (with E. Ann Kaplan, 1999).  My most recent book, Chickens Culture: A Partial Alphabet, will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2010.  I am currently working on a study of comics as a resource for making meanings about illness, disability, and medicine, tentatively titled RX: CX--Comics and the Arts of Medicine.

Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (2004)
by Susan Merrill Squier
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Review from Duke University Press
Review from Isis (pdf version)
Review from Literature and Medicine (pdf version)
Review from American Journal of Bioethics (pdf version)

Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (2003)
by Susan Merrill Squier
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Playing Dolly : Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (1999)
Edited by E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Merrill Squier
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Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (1994)
by Susan Merrill Squier
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Reviews by Rima D. Apple, Judy Z. Segal, and Kathleen Woodward

Arms and the Woman: War, Gender and Literary Representation (1989)
by Helen Cooper, Susan Squier, Adrienne Auslander Munich
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Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City (1985)
by Susan Merrill Squier
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Women writers and the city: Essays in feminist literary criticism (1984)
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• Meditation, Disability, and Identity (pdf version)
• Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
• Speaking Women's Bodies: A Conversation
• The Ectogenesis Debate and the Cyborg: Imaging the Pregnant Body
• Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus
• Negotiating Boundaries: From Assisted Reproduction to Assisted Replication
• A Conversation with Susan Squier