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76. See Daniel Kevles
In the Name of Eugenics: Eugenics and the Uses of Human Heredity
(New York: Knopf, 1985) for a comprehensive history of American and British eugenics movements and their effects.
77. See Reed's discussion of Gardner's points in
The Nation
(29 Nov. 1994): 657-59.
78. Quote by Reed in
The Nation,
656.
79. This epigenetic perspective vs. the reductionist view of genetic determinism has been expressed by many modern developmental biologists and geneticists. See Susan Oyama,
The Ontogeny of

 

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Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
80. Ashley Montagu,
Man's Most Dangerous Myth,
6th ed.
81. Hernnstein and Murray,
The Bell Curve .
82. Geddes and Thomson
Evolution of Sex;
Havelock Ellis,
Man and Woman
[1898] (London: A. & C. Black, 1934).
83. Carol Gilligan
In a Different Voice
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
84. See Susan Sperling and Yewoubdar Beyene " A Pound of Biology and a Pinch of Culture or a Pinch of Biology and a Pound of Culture: The Necessity of Integrating Biology and Culture in Reproductive Studies," in Lori D. Hager, ed.,
Women in Human Evolution
(London: Routledge, 1997).
85. See di Leonardo's discussion of feminist postmodernism in
Gender at The Crossroads,
17-27.
86. For a number of discussions of gay/lesbian studies, Lancaster and di Leonardo,
The Gender/Sexuality Reader .
87. Sperling "Baboons with Briefcases," 204-34.
88. Quoted in Sperling, ibid., p. 215.
89. Ibid.
90. This perspective may be found in John Townsend,
What Women WantWhat Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment so Differently
(New York: Oxford University Press 1998).

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