Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 442 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520236203
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0520202872
Content:
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links the recent resurgence of biological explanations for gender norms, sexual desires, and human nature in general with the current pitched battles over sexual politics. Ideas about a "hardwired" and immutable human nature are circulating at a pivotal moment in human history, he argues, one in which dr
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Culture Wars, Nature Wars; origins stories; 1. In the Beginning, Nature; 2. The Normal Body; 3. The Human Design; 4. Our Animals, Our Selves; adam and eve do the wild thing: the science of desire, the selfish gene, and other modern fables ; 5. The Science Question: Cultural Preoccupations and Social Struggles; 6. Sexual Selection: Eager, Aggressive Boy Meets Coy, Choosy Girl; 7. The Selfish Gene; 8. Genomania and Heterosexual Fetishism; venus and mars at the fin de siècle: evolutionary psychology and the modern art of spin
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9. Biological Beauty and the Straight Arrow of Desire10. Homo Faber, Family Man ; 11. T-Power; 12. Nature's Marriage Laws; varieties of human nature: the view from anthropology and history ; 13. Marooned on Survivor Island; 14. Selective Affinities: Commonalities and Differences in the Family of Man; 15. The Social Body; 16. The Practices of Sex; permutations on the "nature" of desire: the gay brain, the gay gene, and other tales of identity ; 17. This Queer Body; 18. The Biology of the Homosexual; 19. Desire Is Not a "Thing"; 20. Familiar Patterns, Dangerous Liaisons
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the ends of nature: the weird antinomies of postmodern mass culture 21. "Nature" in Quotation Marks; 22. Money's Subject; 23. History and Historicity Flow through the Body Politic; 24. The Politics of Dread and Desire; 25. Sex and Citizenship in the Age of Flexible Accumulation; An Open-Ended Conclusion; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520236202
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Trouble with Nature : Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language:
English
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