By Roger N. Lancaster
ISBN-10: 0520936795
ISBN-13: 9780520936799
Roger N. Lancaster presents the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so tales approximately males, girls, and the character of wish during this lively exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade pop culture, from prime-time sitcoms to clinical theories concerning the so-called homosexual gene. Lancaster hyperlinks the new resurgence of organic causes for gender norms, sexual wishes, and human nature more often than not with the present pitched battles over sexual politics. principles a few "hardwired" and immutable human nature are circulating at a pivotal second in human heritage, he argues, one within which dramatic alterations in gender roles and an unparalleled normalization of lesbian and homosexual relationships are hard obtained notions and quite often held convictions on each front.
The hassle with Nature takes on significant media sources—the long island occasions, Newsweek—and broadly ballyhooed medical reviews and ideas to teach how newshounds, scientists, and others invoke the rhetoric of technology to help political positions within the absence of any genuine proof. Lancaster additionally offers a unique and dramatic research of the social, ancient, and political backdrop for altering discourses on "nature," together with an incisive critique of the disasters of queer concept to appreciate the social conflicts of the instant. via exhibiting how reductivist factors for sexual orientation lean on essentialist rules approximately gender, Lancaster invitations us to imagine extra deeply and creatively approximately human acts and social family.
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13). The late 1940s saw the bestselling Kinsey Reports on Human Sexual Behaviour - turgidly taxonomic and ponderously long as they were. And then a steady flow of major books raised their own story: Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique (tales of invisible and oppressed womanhood), Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy (scientific tales of sexual dysfunction), Alex Comfort's Joy of Sex (tales of lovemaking practices), Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden (tales of woman's fantasies, updated seventeen years later as Women on Top), Susan Brownmiller's epic Against Our Will (tales of rape) along with The Sensuous Woman, The Happy Hooker, The Total Woman and hundreds of other delights.
Those were not golden years, but the resource base at least gave time and space for doctoral students, for staff and for contract researchers to think through, to question and to build on the work of their predecessors. These conditions are now largely absent. Attendance at the BSA conference in Aberdeen was not tied to looking for research funding: there was no money for work on sexual divisions. In 1994 it was, however, noticeable how people were using the conference as an opportunity to talk to those they thought had access to funds.
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