Steven Jay Gould was an incredibly special person --- he died MUCH TOO YOUNG but left us a great legacy of writings.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM Dennis Brasky via groups.io <dmozart1756= [email protected]> wrote: > In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for > gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. > Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but > right-wing pseudoscience persists > > The issue of biological determinism is not an abstract matter to be > debated within academic cloisters. These ideas have important consequences. > . . . The most immediate impact will be felt as male privilege girds its > loins to battle a growing women’s movement. > > —Stephen Jay Gould, “The Nonscience of Human Nature,” 1974 > > https://jacobin.com/2025/01/stephen-jay-gould-sociobiology-gender > > > _._, > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34599): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34599 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110591586/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
