"A brilliant, wide-ranging, masterful critique of the cultural impact of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology on popular as well as scholarly understandings of gender, sexuality and political economy. There are no cheap, trendy shots at science here, nor grandstand gestures to the prejudices of cultural relativists. Lancaster displays the skills of a science journalist while producing a major cultural studies opus."--Judith Stacey, author of "In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age" ...
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"A brilliant, wide-ranging, masterful critique of the cultural impact of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology on popular as well as scholarly understandings of gender, sexuality and political economy. There are no cheap, trendy shots at science here, nor grandstand gestures to the prejudices of cultural relativists. Lancaster displays the skills of a science journalist while producing a major cultural studies opus."--Judith Stacey, author of "In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age" "For several years now, the unsupported, illogical, and often wacky claims of evolutionary psychology and other offspring of sociobiology have creepingly--and creepily--achieved the status of legitimate science in this culture. Finally, in "The Trouble with Nature, " we have a book that brilliantly exposes the speciousness of recent--and widely accepted--arguments that gender differences, parental roles, beauty ideals, male violence, and homosexuality are genetically 'hard wired.' But Lancaster's book is not just a refutation of this 'genomania.' It's also a cultural exploration of its emergence and appeal at a time when sexuality, gender, and the family, far from exhibiting some invariant, stable form, are actually in radical flux. And it's also a wonderful read, which draws on popular culture, anthropology, philosophy, history, and scientific studies with equal ease and authority to demonstrate, not that biology plays little or no role in human life, but that cultural plasticity--not uniformity--is the real law of our evolution."--Susan Bordo, author of "Unbearable Weight" and "The Male Body" "'What is a woman, man, homosexual or heterosexual?'--asks Roger Lancaster in this lively, engaging new book. And well may he ask as, once again, academic pop stars hawk their biodetermined creations. Eschewing simplistic caricatures, he offers vivid examples of the ambiguities, contradictions, and complexities that characterize real people, while showing how the biomyths serve to revivify constricting ideologies about sex and family. An original and fascinating book."--Ruth Hubbard, author of "Exploding the Gene Myth" and "The Politics of Women's Biology" "A major advance for the science of human behavior and for thoughtful scholarship generally. Lancaster provides a comprehensive analysis of essentialized ideas about sexuality, gender, and sexual preference that are out there in American popular culture, and--alas!--reinforced by crappy science. He provides an immensely valuable counterpoint to the evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics that everyone knows about, but that few are competent to consider critically. What a fun book!"--Jonathan Marks, author of "What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee" "Provocative, witty, illuminating and politically pointed, "The Trouble with Nature" shows us how the flat-footed fixities of biological reductionism limit and constrain us, and why we need an expansive progressive political imagination to free us."--Lisa Duggan, co-author of "Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture" "A funny, ironic, and learned account of a deeply serious topic: how the media and popular culture appropriate facts--real ones and fake ones--about biology in order to make claims about how human societies ought to be organized and understood. One might have hoped that David Hume back in the eighteenth century would have put a stop to such foolishness, but apparently not. Anyone needing an antidote to the current crop of popular socio-biology books flooding the market, anyone who needs convincing of the power of culture, should read this wonderful book."--Thomas Laqueur, author of "Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud" "Sex, lies and videotape. Culture wars, science wars, and it's the economy, stupid. With interdisciplinary brilliance and biting wit, Lancaster makes sad sense of sociobiology's c
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 442 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2002002311 Type of material Book Personal name Lancaster, Roger N. Main title The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture / Roger N. Lancaster. Published/Created Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003. Description xiii, 442 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0520202872 (alk. paper) 0520236203 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HQ23. L29 2003 LC Subjects Sex in popular culture. Science news. Pseudoscience. Sexual orientation--Physiological aspects. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 306.7 Other system no. (DLC) 2002002311 (DLC)3812
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