Erect Men, Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, “Race” and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human EvolutionWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 14 нояб. 1997 г. - Всего страниц: 290 Based on intensive study of human origin illustrations, responses from students and colleagues and research into reconstructive illustration and feminist criticism of Western art, this ground-breaking book traces the subtle ways in which paleoanthropological conventions have influenced and have shifted in the creation of these illustrations. Wiber reveals that embedded meanings in these illustrations go beyond gender to include two other ubiquitous themes—racial superiority and upward cultural progress. Underlying all these themes, she found a basic conservatism in the paleoanthropological approach to evolutionary theory. Erect Men/Undulating Women provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins, but, more importantly, it encourages readers to gain a sensitivity to the ways in which Western culture constructs “scientific” findings that are compatible with its deeply held beliefs and values. |
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Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field | 47 |
Gender The Ubiquitous Story Operator | 75 |
Conflation and the Significant Other Racism and Codes of the Primitive | 105 |
Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers Analogies of the PreCultural Life | 121 |
Progress Inevitable as Moral Rewards The Ultimate Story Operator | 153 |
Lucy as Barbie Doll Eroticism in the Human Evolution MetaNarrative | 189 |
The Commodification of Human Evolution Selling a Story Field through Illustrations | 203 |
Conclusions and Future Directions for Research | 227 |
Figures | 241 |
References Cited | 257 |
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