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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, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- viii, 167 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-157) and index.
- Contents
- "Welcome Back to the Caveman Times": An Introduction -- Ch. 1. "Sperm Wars, Sex Wars, and Science Wars -- Downsized Cavemen Going Apeshit -- Moral Disdain for Men -- Sperm Wars -- Sex Wars -- Science Wars -- Ch. 2. 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 -- Ch. 3. 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 -- Ch. 4. 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 -- Ch. 5. Home 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.
- ISBN
- 9780415934756 (pbk.)
- 0415934753 (pbk.)
- 9780415934749 (cloth)
- 0415934745 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2007010352
- OCLC
- ocm85892412
- 85892412
- SCSB-5379696
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries