The evolution of allure : sexual selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk / George L....
The evolution of allure : sexual selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk / George L....
The evolution of allure : sexual selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk / George L. Hersey.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
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N700/60
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English
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xvi, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Aphrodite's Daughters -- Sexual Selection. Augmentation. Borrowing, Translation, and Exchange. Sperm Competition. Clothes as Genital Maps -- Incarnate Christs and Selectable Saints. The Incarnation. The Immaculate Conception. Magdalen and Teresa -- Body Canons. Polykleitos, Praxiteles,...
Brain Decay: Whistler, Boldini, and J. W. Alexander -- Into Nazism. Paul Schultze Naumburg: Rubens and Rembrandt. Jacob Epstein and Racial Treachery. The 120-Year Reich -- Hyperdevelopment Today. Augmentation: Hercules and Batman. Exchange: Arnold, Diana of Ephesus, Kristy Ramsey, and Hannah Hoch. D...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
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Massachusetts
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c1996.
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The evolution of allure : sexual selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk / George L. Hersey.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.
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c1996.
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N700/60
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0262581647 (paperback)
9780262082440 (hc : alk. paper)
0262082446 (hc : alk. paper)
9780262082440 (hc)
0262082446 (hc)
9780262581646 (paperback)
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700
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991005168119702626
