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Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives (Hardcover, New)
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Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives (Hardcover, New)
Series: Transformations
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Since the early 1990s, evolutionary psychology has produced widely
popular visions of modern men and women as driven by their
prehistoric genes. In Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in
Evolutionary Narratives, Venla Oikkonen explores the rhetorical
appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it as part of the
Darwinian narrative tradition. Refusing to start from the position
of dismissing evolutionary psychology as reactionary or
scientifically invalid, the book examines evolutionary
psychologists' investments in such contested concepts as teleology
and variation. The book traces the emergence of evolutionary
psychological narratives of gender, sexuality and reproduction,
encompassing: Charles Darwin's understanding of transformation and
sexual difference Edward O. Wilson's evolutionary mythology and the
evolution-creationism controversy Richard Dawkins' molecular agency
and new imaging technologies the connections between adultery,
infertility and homosexuality in adaptationist thought. Through
popular, literary and scientific texts, the book identifies both
the imaginative potential and the structural weaknesses in
evolutionary narratives, opening them up for feminist and queer
revision. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
the humanities and social sciences, particularly in gender studies,
cultural studies, literature, sexualities, and science and
technology studies.
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