LEADER 04204nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910450524803321 005 20210603215517.0 010 $a1-4175-2263-1 010 $a9786613303936 010 $a1-283-30393-0 010 $a0-520-93679-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936799 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008115 035 $a(EBL)224219 035 $a(OCoLC)475930187 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262505 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11225314 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262505 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10270932 035 $a(PQKB)11477722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224219 035 $a(DE-B1597)520372 035 $a(OCoLC)55857253 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936799 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058526 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330393 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008115 100 $a20020227d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe trouble with nature$b[electronic resource] $esex in science and popular culture /$fRoger N. Lancaster 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (459 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-20287-2 311 0 $a0-520-23620-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Culture Wars, Nature Wars: A Report from the Front --$tOrigins Stories --$tAdam and Eve Do the Wild Thing: The Science of Desire, the Selfish Gene, and Other Modern Fables --$tVenus and Mars at the Fin de Siècle: Evolutionary Psychology and the Modern Art of Spin --$tVarieties of Human Nature: The View from Anthropology and History --$tPermutations on the "Nature" of Desire: The Gay Brain, the Gay Gene, and Other Tales of Identity --$tThe Ends of Nature: The Weird Antinomies of Postmodern Mass Culture --$tAn Open-Ended Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aRoger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links the recent resurgence of biological explanations for gender norms, sexual desires, and human nature in general with the current pitched battles over sexual politics. Ideas about a "hardwired" and immutable human nature are circulating at a pivotal moment in human history, he argues, one in which dramatic changes in gender roles and an unprecedented normalization of lesbian and gay relationships are challenging received notions and commonly held convictions on every front. The Trouble with Nature takes on major media sources-the New York Times, Newsweek-and widely ballyhooed scientific studies and ideas to show how journalists, scientists, and others invoke the rhetoric of science to support political positions in the absence of any real evidence. Lancaster also provides a novel and dramatic analysis of the social, historical, and political backdrop for changing discourses on "nature," including an incisive critique of the failures of queer theory to understand the social conflicts of the moment. By showing how reductivist explanations for sexual orientation lean on essentialist ideas about gender, Lancaster invites us to think more deeply and creatively about human acts and social relations. 606 $aSex in popular culture 606 $aScience news 606 $aPseudoscience 606 $aSexual orientation$xPhysiological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex in popular culture. 615 0$aScience news. 615 0$aPseudoscience. 615 0$aSexual orientation$xPhysiological aspects. 676 $a306.7 700 $aLancaster$b Roger N$01043439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450524803321 996 $aThe trouble with nature$92473596 997 $aUNINA