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13. Boas,
Race, Language, and Culture,
60-75.
14. Montagu,
Man's Most Dangerous Myth,
35.
15. UNESCO,
The Race Concept: Results of an Inquiry,
12-13.
16. Haraway,
Primate Visions,
202.
17. See Chapter 9 of Pat Shipman's
The Evolution of Racism
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994). Shipman criticizes Montagu and others responsible for the UNESCO statements as motivated by political concerns rather than sound science. Her approach is sometimes oddly personal and antagonistic, as when she writes of Montagu that he has "a heightened sensitivity to possible racism that drives his professional life" (p. 160), one which she says he "projects onto others." Also see my review of Shipman's book ("Racist Science,"
The Nation,
vol. 259 (28 Nov. 1994): 18.
18. For a discussion of the cultural context of Darwin's ideas regarding human gender, see Ruth Hubbard,
The Politics of Women's Biology
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), chapter 7 "Have Only Men Evolved?," 87-106.
19. Charles Darwin,
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection .
London: John Murray, 1859.
20. Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Manvol .
2. (London: John Murray, 1871), 327-28.
21. For further historical context, see Hubbard,
Politics of Women's Biology,
87-106.
22. Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson,
The Evolution of Sex
(London: Walter Scott, 1889).
23. Wolfgang Wickler,
The Sexual Code: The Social Behavior of Animals and Men
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1973); Valerius Geist,
Mountain Sheep
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971); George C. Williams,
Sex and Evolution
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
24. See Hubbard's
Politics of Womens Biology,
pp. 87-106; and Susan Sperling's "Baboons with Briefcases vs. Langurs with Lipstick: Feminism and Functionalism in Primate Studies" in R. N. Lancaster and M. di Leonardo, eds.,
The Gender/Sexuality Reader,
edited by (New York: Routledge, 1997), 176-204.

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