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The caveman mystique : pop-Darwinism and the debates over sex, violence, and science / Martha McCaughey.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McCaughey, Martha, 1966-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex role.
Men--Psychology.
Men.
Masculinity.
Sex.
Homosexuality.
Violence.
Evolution (Biology).
Physical Description:
viii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Routledge, [2008]
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-157) and index.
ISBN:
9780415934756
0415934753
9780415934749
0415934745
OCLC:
85892412

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