ISBN:
9780520936799
,
0520936795
,
1417522631
,
9781417522637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 442 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Trouble with nature
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Sexual orientation Physiological aspects
;
Sex in popular culture
;
Science news
;
Pseudoscience
;
Sexual orientation Physiological aspects
;
Sexual orientation Physiological aspects
;
Pseudoscience
;
Science news
;
Sex in popular culture
;
Electronic books
;
SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
Pseudoscience
;
Science news
;
Sex in popular culture
;
Sexual orientation ; Physiological aspects
;
Comportement sexuel
;
Culture populaire
;
Genre
;
Orientation sexuelle
;
Sexualité
;
Sociobiologie
;
Vulgarisation scientifique
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Culture Wars, Nature Wars; Origins Stories; Adam and Eve Do the Wild Thing; Venus and Mars at the Fin de Siècle; Varieties of Human Nature; Permutations on the "Nature" of Desire; The Ends of Nature; 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; Notes; Index.
Abstract:
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited expose of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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