Subversive Seduction

Name: Subversive Seduction
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295992198
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Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel

Szerző: Travis Landry

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Washington Press

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Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection,...

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Szerző

Travis Landry

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

336

EAN

9780295992198

ISBN

0295992190

Enbook ID

04875023

Kiadó

University of Washington Press

Súly

518

Méretek

154 x 228 x 25

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Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man - and in the decades since - about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women. Travis Landry is assistant professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.

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