An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Geneaology Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation 15
2. Writing Feminist Geneaology: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism 61
3. Engels’s Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital 106
4. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction 145
5. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality 187
Coda: Gene/alogies for a New Millennium 227
Notes 247
Works Cited 307
Index 339

Alys Eve Weinbaum is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.