THE (SEXUAL) POLITICS OF EVOLUTION: Popular Controversy in the Late 20th-Century United Kingdom

History of Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-226

  Cassidy, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Darwinism; evolutionary psychology; gender politics; mass media; popular science; sexuality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUALITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUALITY;

EID: 34548019497     PISSN: 10934510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.10.2.199     Document Type: Article

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