The Trouble with Nature

Reviews / Votes

"A terrific critical overview of recent attempts to assert that the complexities of sex, gender and sexuality are reducible to isolatable biological features, such as genes, hormones and regions of the brain. . . . A sharp analysis of American culture's current tendency to gravitate toward the view that gender differences are genetically hard-wired. . . . [and] most effectively arms the reader with the tools we need to understand and deconstruct the fallacious science that promotes silly hetero norms." * Lambda Book Report * "Vivid, sharp, fun-to-read . . . Includes a wide range of examples from the popular culture, carefully analyzed and exposed with witty irony." * Leonardo * "Lancaster is a fluent, often funny, and. . . [a] good-natured writer. He divests constructivist theory and gender studies of their usual obtuse jargon and acknowledges this silliness of some ideological critiques of science." * Wilson Quarterly * "The definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire . . . [A] spirited expose of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture." * Science for the People * "Among his achievements within this text is to unpack the freight of bioreductivist strains of scientific research in the aforementioned areas and to rebut the essentializing assumptions and normalizing effects of this science and the forums in which its findings are reported. The Trouble with Nature will be of interest to social scientists and to scholars in the humanities working on issues of sex and gender, sexuality, the body, science studies, and US culture." * Culture, Health & Sexuality *