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Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7421-3
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Making the Monogamous Human: Mating, Measurement, and the New Science of Bonding
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Published:May 2016
This chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a neuroscience laboratory on whose research reports of the discovery of a monogamy gene were based. This chapter demonstrates how assumptions about human monogamy are naturalized and shape the notions of the normal (sexual/social/pair-bonded) and the abnormal (asexual/asocial/promiscuous) that are built into the modeling of gene-brain-behavior connections in contemporary neuroscience. It analyzes the laboratory’s publications and practices in order to hold the discursive production of difference and the material conditions of possibility for that production within the same frame. It examines slippages in terminology and choices about its deployment, models that code...
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