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The trouble with nature : sex in science and popular culture /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lancaster, Roger N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.