Erect Men, Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, Race and 'Progress' in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution. (book reviews)

MELANIE G. WIBER. vii+290 pages, 16 figures. 1997. Waterloo (ONT): Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 0-88920-274-5 hardback $44.95.

This book focuses on the way in which gender is represented in recent illustrations of human evolution. Wiber seeks to identify the conventions that characterize such illustrations and contextualize these within evolutionary thought. The data upon which her research findings are based is a small sample of images, which she showed to her students to see how they interpreted the meanings of the pictures. Keen to reveal the hidden messages in the pictures and ...

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