Gender, sexuality and reproduction in evolutionary narratives / Venla Oikkonen.
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...
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New York, N.Y. :
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2013.
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| Series: | Transformations.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Foundational trajectories in Darwin and sociobiology; 2 Narrative variation and the changing meanings of movement; 3 The gendered politics of genetic discourse; 4 The narrative attraction of adulterous desires; 5 Reproductive failure and narrative continuity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.