Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common... read full description
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Jan 06, 2011
J.P.
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At the end of this book, it's still not entirely clear what McCaughey wants. 13 pages before the end, she does say "We must demand not only better science from the HBE theorists, but a better understanding of science in our culture at large." Well who doesn't agree with this?
She does make some compelling arguments. For one, the notion that men can embody some false narrative about their caveman tendencies (i.e. what she refers to as the Caveman Mystique) is no doubt a prob More...
She does make some compelling arguments. For one, the notion that men can embody some false narrative about their caveman tendencies (i.e. what she refers to as the Caveman Mystique) is no doubt a prob More...
May 24, 2009
Deb
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Suspicious of evolutionary just-so stories about gender roles in the popular press? Able to deal with post-structuralist queer-theory sociology of science lingo? There are some excellent points in here, though I wonder if they'll get through to everyone she'd like to persuade. Requires too much background knowledge for undergraduates, but good for academics who care about the topic.
Apr 15, 2009
Wendell
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I am slowly but surely making my way through this book, not because it is poorly-written, but because it is so dense! It is packed with information in every sentence, and this makes it tough to wade through. McCaughey is just the voice we need these days, because of her schooling in both HBE and social science makes her uniquely qualified to give critiques of both, though this book focuses on the disinterest of some HBE scholars to work alongside social scientists to account for the impact the s
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Jul 28, 2010
Melissa
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A good commentary on how aggressive male sexual behavior is excused with erroneous claims to a "caveman mystique," whereby acts such as infidelity, sexual harassment, ogling and rape can be excused as adaptive evolutionary behaviors designed to propagate the species. McCaughey does a good job of showing, first of all, that these behaviors are not necessarily adaptive as well as showing that scientific claims to evolution are steeped in a political, hetero-normative (and heterosexist) c
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