The Trouble With Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture
de Roger N. Lancaster
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Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA, London: University of California Press, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Sara Cambridge (Cover Design & Collage by). 442 pp. Virtually, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth cover. Synopsis: 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. Lancaster links the recent resurgence of biological explanations for gender norms, sexual desires, and human nature in general with the current pitched battles over sexual politics. Ideas about a 'hardwired' and immutable human nature are circulating at a pivotal moment in human history, he argues, one in which dramatic changes in gender roles and an unprecedented normalization of lesbian and gay relationships are challenging received notions and commonly held convictions on every front. "The Trouble with Nature" takes on major media sources - the "New York Times", "Newsweek" - and widely ballyhooed scientific studies and ideas to show how journalists, scientists, and others invoke the rhetoric of science to support political positions in the absence of any real evidence.Lancaster also provides a novel and dramatic analysis of the social, historical, and political backdrop for changing discourses on 'nature', including an incisive critique of the failures of queer theory to understand the social conflicts of the moment. By showing how reductivist explanations for sexual orientation lean on essentialist ideas about gender, Lancaster invites us to think more deeply and creatively about human acts and social relations.
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- Título
- The Trouble With Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture
- Autor
- Roger N. Lancaster
- Ilustrador
- Sara Cambridge (Cover Design & Collage by)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo Like New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0520236203
- ISBN 13
- 9780520236202
- Editorial
- University of California Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- Sexual Studies, Gender & Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Entertainment, Sex in Popular Culture, Pseudoscience, Sexual Orientation, Physiological Aspects
- Size
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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