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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lancaster, Roger N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Sex in popular culture.
Science news.
Pseudoscience.
Sexual orientation > Physiological aspects.
Sexualité dans la culture populaire.
Sciences > Vulgarisation.
Parasciences.
Orientation sexuelle > Aspect physiologique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Comportement sexuel.
Culture populaire.
Genre.
Orientation sexuelle.
Sexualité
Sociobiologie.
Vulgarisation scientifique.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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