Erect men, undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, "race" and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution
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.
Print Book, English, 1997
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1997
Aspectos sociales
IX, 290 p. : il. ; 24 cm
9780889202740, 9780889203082, 0889202745, 0889203083
911331890
Table of Contents for Erect Men/Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, "Race" and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution by Melanie G. Wiber List of Figures Acknowledgments ONE: Of Gender, "Race," Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration TWO: Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer THREE: Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field FOUR: Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator FIVE: Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive SIX: Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre-Cultural Life SEVEN: Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards- The Ultimate Story Operator 153 EIGHT: Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative NINE: The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations TEN: Conclusions and Future Directions for Research Figures 241 References Cited 257 Index 279 Figures References Cited Index