Roger Lancaster's research tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a volatile world. His books include Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua, which received both the C. Wright Mills Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems) and the Ruth Benedict Prize (Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists). His fifth and most recent book is Sex Panic and the Punitive State, which also won the Ruth Benedict Prize. It examines America's draconian sex offender laws and their production of ever-larger ranks of people who are subject to permanent social exclusion.
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, wo... more Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay ...
... while avoiding many of the cliches too common in contemporary cultural criticism.&amp... more ... while avoiding many of the cliches too common in contemporary cultural criticism." LAWRENCE ... AT THE FIN DE SIECLE: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MODERN ART OF SPIN 9 ... OF NATURE: THE WEIRD ANTINOMIES OF POSTMODERN MASS CULTURE 21 22 ...
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, wo... more Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay ...
... while avoiding many of the cliches too common in contemporary cultural criticism.&amp... more ... while avoiding many of the cliches too common in contemporary cultural criticism." LAWRENCE ... AT THE FIN DE SIECLE: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MODERN ART OF SPIN 9 ... OF NATURE: THE WEIRD ANTINOMIES OF POSTMODERN MASS CULTURE 21 22 ...
One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, ... more One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and develops new insights into the punitive logic that has put down deep roots in everyday American life. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520262065
The definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desir... more The definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520236202
The Gender/Sexuality Reader is a sophisticated survey which contextualizes gender and sexuality i... more The Gender/Sexuality Reader is a sophisticated survey which contextualizes gender and sexuality in a matrix of varied racial formations, nationalisms, colonialisms, imperialisms and movements for social change. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Janice Boddy, Susan Bordo, Judith Butler, Jane Collier, Jane L. Collins, Teresa de Lauretis, Janadas Devan, Micaela di Leonardo, John D'Emilio, Ann Fausto-Sterling, Susan Gal, David F. Greenberg, Matthew Gutman, Jacalyn D. Harden, Lori L. Heise, Geraldine Heng, Darlene Clark Hine, Evelyn Fox Keller, Roger Lancaster, Thomas Laqueur, Catherine A. Lutz, Emily Martin, Richard Parker, Cindy Patton, Rosalind Petchesky, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Rayna Rapp, Michelle Rosaldo, Ellen Ross, Lousia Schein, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Amartya Sen, Elizabeth Sheehan, Siobhan Somerville, Susan Sperling, Judith Stacey, Arlene Stein, Ann Stoler, Carole S. Vance, Sylvia Yanagisako, and Patricia Zavella. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415910057
Through candid discussions with young and old Nicaraguans, men and women, Lancaster constructs an... more Through candid discussions with young and old Nicaraguans, men and women, Lancaster constructs an account of the successes and failures of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, documenting the effects of war and embargo on the cultural and economic fabric of Nicaraguan society. A story of survival and resistance but also of humor and happiness. Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award and the Ruth Benedict Prize. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520089297
In this beautifully written book, Roger Lancaster takes us into the working class barrios of Mana... more In this beautifully written book, Roger Lancaster takes us into the working class barrios of Managua, vibrant with millenarian longings for a more just and egalitarian world. In arguments at once coolly analytical and passionate, he takes issue with the view that sees in religion only 'the opium of the people,' and invites us instead to consider religion as a vehicle for asserting human hope. He thus offers us a new way of looking at the Nicaraguan revolution, and at other revolutions still to come. -- Eric R. Wolf Graduate Center, City University of New York
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