Explores the role of religion, and its relatioship to popular culture, in the lives of Nicaraguans.

Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua

Lancaster, Roger N.

History

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Explores the role of religion, and its relatioship to popular culture, in the lives of Nicaraguans.

Religion & Spirituality

An in-depth social analysis of a nation perplexed by political paradox and cultural flux reflects on the successes and failures of the Sandinista Revolution, the breakup of families, the struggles faced by female-headed households, and the transformation of the machismo culture.

Life Is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua (A Centennial Book)

Americas

Univ. Of California Pr.

Roger 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.

The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

University of California Press

Roger 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.

One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and develops new insights into the punitive logic that has put down deep roots in everyday American life.

Sex Panic and the Punitive State

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Struggle to Be Gay―in Mexico, for Example

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Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua

Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua

Life Is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua (A Centennial Book)

The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture

The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture

Sex Panic and the Punitive State

The Struggle to Be Gay―in Mexico, for Example