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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha McCaughey |
| ISBN: | 9780415934756 0415934753 9780415934749 0415934745 |
| OCLC Number: | 85892412 |
| Description: | viii, 167 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | "Welcome back to the caveman times": an introduction -- Sperm wars, sex wars, and science wars -- Downsized cavemen going apeshit -- Moral disdain for men -- Sperm wars -- Sex wars -- Science wars -- Homo resurrectus: the theory of evolution as a moral answer for men -- Darwin's theory and the crisis in morals -- Darwinism as the second coming -- Darwin's soldiers: a salvation army -- The scientific truth that will set us free -- Moral answers for the moral animal -- Science and certainty -- The caveman as resurrection -- Homo habitus: evolution, popular culture, and the embodied ethos of male sexuality -- The caveman in popular culture -- Caveman therapy -- Caveman desires -- Caveman edutainment -- Moral lessons for cavemen -- The caveman as embodied ethos -- Homo sexual : perverting evolutionary stories of male sexuality -- How to pervert evolutionary theory -- Evolution and evolutionary theory are already perverted -- Heterosexual masculinity as the origin of the origins of heterosexual masculinity -- Homosexuality as heterosexuality ... as homosexuality -- Setting the evolutionary record queer -- Do gay brains make better politics? -- Learning to live with perversion -- Homo textual: a missing link between science and culture -- Popularity and reality -- Evolutionary theory and scientific certainty -- Evolutionary insights for a change -- Beyond the grand narrative of science -- Beyond the science wars -- A great leap forward. |
| Other Titles: | Pop-Darwinism and the debates over sex, violence, and science |
| Responsibility: | Martha McCaughey. |
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"The Caveman Mystique sits at the intersection of feminism, cultural studies, science studies, and sociology of the body. As such, it would be an excellent monograph to assign in a class addressing any of these or their intersections. More generally, HBE logic, whether we want it to or not, infuses all of our classrooms. In this sense, we all have an opportunity to question "the [exclusive] right of scientists to comment on complex cultural practices" (p. 128) and to insist on the importance of feminist sociological contributions. For anyone who desires to do so, this book is an excellent way to catch up on the politics and poetics of this compelling and pervasive mythology." -- Lisa Wade, Gender and Society, April 2008 "...McCaughey seeks to shift our understanding of science from a practice and methodology evaluated by objective standards to a cultural discourse influences by social relations and power." --Feminist Collections, Vol. 29, No. 3-4, Summer-Fall 2008 Read more...
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