The Caveman Mystique : Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science.

By:

McCaughey, Martha

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781135952099
1135952094
1283607549
9781283607544
9786613919991
6613919993
0203939085
9780203939086

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.7

LOC classification:

HQ1075

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; "WELCOME BACK TO THE CAVEMAN TIMES": AN INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 SPERM WARS, SEX WARS, AND SCIENCE WARS; Downsized Cavemen Going Apeshit; Moral Disdain for Men; Sperm Wars; Sex Wars; Science Wars; CHAPTER 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

CHAPTER 3 HOMO HABITUS: EVOLUTION, POPULAR CULTURE, AND THE EMBODIED ETHOS OF MALE SEXUALITYThe Caveman in Popular Culture; Caveman Therapy; Caveman Desires; Caveman Edutainment; Moral Lessons for Cavemen; The Caveman as Embodied Ethos; CHAPTER 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; CHAPTER 5 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; NOTES; INDEX

Summary: Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through evolutionary science and popular culture. After outlining the social and historical context of the rise of pop-Darwinism's assertions about male sexuality and their appeal to many men, Martha McCaughey shows how evolutionary discourse can get lived out as the biological truth of male sexuality. Although evolutionary scien.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Print version record.

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through evolutionary science and popular culture. After outlining the social and historical context of the rise of pop-Darwinism's assertions about male sexuality and their appeal to many men, Martha McCaughey shows how evolutionary discourse can get lived out as the biological truth of male sexuality. Although evolutionary scien.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.