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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger N Lancaster |
| ISBN: | 0520202872 9780520202870 0520236203 9780520236202 |
| OCLC Number: | 49404271 |
| Description: | xiii, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | In the Beginning, Nature -- The Normal Body -- The Human Design -- Our Animals, Our Selves -- The Science Question: Cultural Preoccupations and Social Struggles -- Sexual Selection: Eager, Aggressive Boy Meets Coy, Choosy Girl -- The Selfish Gene -- Genomania and Heterosexual Fetishism -- Biological Beauty and the Straight Arrow of Desire -- Homo Faber, Family Man -- T-Power -- Nature's Marriage Laws -- Marooned on Survivor Island -- Selective Affinities: Commonalities and Differences in the Family of Man -- The Social Body -- The Practices of Sex -- This Queer Body -- The Biology of the Homosexual -- Desire Is Not a "Thing" -- Familiar Patterns, Dangerous Liaisons -- "Nature" in Quotation Marks -- Money's Subject -- History and Historicity Flow through the Body Politic -- The Politics of Dread and Desire -- Sex and Citizenship in the Age of Flexible Accumulation. |
| Responsibility: | Roger N. Lancaster. |
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Abstract:
Links the resurgence of biological explanations for gender norms, sexual desires, and human nature in general with the battles over sexual politics. This work shows how journalists, scientists, and others invoke the rhetoric of science to support political positions in the absence of any real evidence.
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"Lancaster is a fluent, often funny, and. . . good-natured writer. He divests constructivist theory and gender studies of their usual obtuse jargon and acknowledges this silliness of some ideological critiques of science."--"Wilson Quarterly" Read more...
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