1st Edition
Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives
By Venla Oikkonen
Copyright 2013
182 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more
Acknowledgements. 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
Biography
Venla Oikkonen is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include literature and science, evolutionary theory, population genomics, and scientific discourses of gender, sexuality, race and nation.
