If This Topic Intrigues You, Check Out These Other Sources!

  • Sahlins, Marshall. "The Sadness of Sweetness," in Culture in Practice, 2001. [good discussion of the cultural logics underlying western theories of the person, including links between theories of economic behavior, structural-functionalism, and theories of sexual behavior like sociobiology].
  • Kessler, Suzanne and Wendy McKenna. "Ch. 3 Biology and Gender," in Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.(34 pp). (see me).
  • Alcock, John. The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford University Press, 2001.[student of EO Wilson]
  • Harroway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge, 1989. [oft-cited critical and anthropological history of primatology]
  • MacKinnon, Katherine and Agustin Fuentes. "Reassessing Male Aggression and Dominance: The Evidence from Primatology," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005 (In bookstore and on book reserve).
  • Leatherman, Thomas and Alan goodman. "Context and Complexity in Human Biological research," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
  • Orgel, Mary et al. "Surveying a Cultural 'Waistland': Some Biological Poetics and Politics of the Female Body," in McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005. (In bookstore and on book reserve).
  • Somerville, Siobhan. "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body," in (GSR). (10 pp.) (In bookstore and on book reserve).
  • Spanier, Bonnie. "Biological Determinism and Homosexuality," in Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005. (bookstore and book reserve).
  • Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume 1: An Introduction. Random House, 1990 (1978).
  • Laqueur, Thomas. "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," (GSR). (20 pp.) (In bookstore and on book reserve)
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne: How to Build a Man, GSR [also see her essay available on-line on the companion website for this week's film: "Sex: Unknown".