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The caveman mystique : pop-Darwinism and the debates over sex, violence, and science
- Title
- The caveman mystique : pop-Darwinism and the debates over sex, violence, and science / Martha McCaughey.
- Author
- McCaughey, Martha, 1966-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
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- Description
- viii, 167 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.
- Contents
- "Welcome back to the caveman times": an introduction -- Sperm wars, sex wars, and science wars -- Downsized cavemen going apeshit -- Moral disdain for men -- Sperm wars -- Sex wars -- Science wars -- Homo resurrectus: the theory of evolution as a moral answer for men -- Darwin's theory and the crisis in morals -- Darwinism as the second coming -- Darwin's soldiers: a salvation army -- The scientific truth that will set us free -- Moral answers for the moral animal -- Science and certainty -- The caveman as resurrection -- Homo habitus: evolution, popular culture, and the embodied ethos of male sexuality -- The caveman in popular culture -- Caveman therapy -- Caveman desires -- Caveman edutainment -- Moral lessons for cavemen -- The caveman as embodied ethos -- Homo sexual : perverting evolutionary stories of male sexuality -- How to pervert evolutionary theory -- Evolution and evolutionary theory are already perverted -- Heterosexual masculinity as the origin of the origins of heterosexual masculinity -- Homosexuality as heterosexuality ... as homosexuality -- Setting the evolutionary record queer -- Do gay brains make better politics? -- Learning to live with perversion -- Homo textual: a missing link between science and culture -- Popularity and reality -- Evolutionary theory and scientific certainty -- Evolutionary insights for a change -- Beyond the grand narrative of science -- Beyond the science wars -- A great leap forward.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-755
- ISBN
- 9780415934756 (pbk.)
- 0415934753 (pbk.)
- 9780415934749 (cloth)
- 0415934745 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2007010352
- OCLC
- 85892412
- vendorOCM85892412
- Author
- McCaughey, Martha, 1966-
- Title
- The caveman mystique : pop-Darwinism and the debates over sex, violence, and science / Martha McCaughey.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-755