Caveman Mystique Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science

Name: Caveman Mystique Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science
Price: 3.77 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780415934756

ISBN-10: 0415934753

ISBN-13: 9780415934756

Edition: 2008

Authors: Martha McCaughey

List price: $45.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.77

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers?nbsp; Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression.nbsp; The Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through evolutionary science and popular culture.nbsp; 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.nbsp; Although evolutionary scientists want to use their theories to solve social problems, evolutionary…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.02" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Martha McCaughey is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. [Author Bio] . To read reviews on this book, go to http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/home/RealKnockoutsPage.html



Acknowledgments


"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


Index