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Zusatztext "Among his achievements within this text is to unpack the freight of bioreductivist strains of scientific research in the aforementioned areas and to rebut the essentializing assumptions and normalizing effects of this science and the forums in which its findings are reported. The Trouble with Nature will be of interest to social scientists and to scholars in the humanities working on issues of sex and gender, sexuality, the body, science studies, and US culture." Informationen zum Autor Roger N. Lancaster teaches anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University! where he directs the Cultural Studies Ph.D. program. He edited (with Micaela di Leonardo) The Gender/Sexuality Reader (1997) and is the author of Life Is Hard: Machismo! Danger! and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua (California! 1993)! which won the C. Wright Mills Award and the Ruth Benedict Prize. Klappentext 97398246 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Culture Wars! Nature Wars: A Report from the Front ORIGINS STORIES 1. In the Beginning! Nature 2. The Normal Body 3. The Human Design 4. Our Animals! Our Selves ADAM AND EVE DO THE WILD THING: THE SCIENCE OF DESIRE! THE SELFISH GENE! AND OTHER MODERN FABLES 5. The Science Question: Cultural Preoccupations and Social Struggles 6. Sexual Selection: Eager! Aggressive Boy Meets Coy! Choosy Girl 7. The Selfish Gene 8. Genomania and Heterosexual Fetishism VENUS AND MARS AT THE FIN DE DIECLE: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MODERN ART OF SPIN 9. Biological Beauty and the Straight Arrow of Desire 10. Homo Faber! Family Man 11. T-Power 12. Nature's Marriage Laws VARIETIES OF HUMAN NATURE: THE VIEW FROM ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY 13. Marooned on Survivor Island 14. Selective Affinities: Commonalities and Differences in the Family of Man 15. The Social Body 16. The Practices of Sex PERMUTATIONS ON THE "NATURE" OF DESIRE: THE GAY BRAIN! THE GAY GENE! AND OTHER TALES OF IDENTITY 17. This Queer Body 18. The Biology of the Homosexual 19. Desire Is Not a "Thing" 20. Familiar Patterns! Dangerous Liaisons THE ENDS OF NATURE: THE WEIRD ANTINOMIES OF POSTMODERN MASS CULTURE 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 An Open-Ended Conclusion Notes Index ...
