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Subversive Seduction : Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel /
"Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Indeterminacy of Natural Law; Part One: Origins ; 1. The Very Notion of "Real" Reciprocity between Literature and Science ; 2. The Power Dynamics of Sexual Selection; 3. Translations, Translators, and the Sexual Politics of Sexual Selection in Spain; Part Two: Adaptations; 4. Suitors and Selectors-Jacinto Octavio Picón; 5. Rivalries and Rituals-Leopoldo Alas (Clarín); 6. Heirs and Errors-Benito Perez Galdós; Part Three: Speciations; 7. A Romance with Darwin in the Evolutionary Noche of Alejandro Sawa.
- 8. The Religious Descent of Armando Palacio Valdes9. Emilia Pardo Bazán, Reproduction, and Change; Conclusion: The Imperfect Science of Conscience; Notes; Works Cited; Index.