Evolution's Empress

Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women
Herausgeber: Fisher, Maryanne L; Chang, Rosemarie Sokol; Garcia, Justin R

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Produktbeschreibung

Effectively dismantling misguided assumptions that women take on passive roles when it comes to survival and reproduction, Evolution's Empress addresses women as active agents within the evolutionary process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780199892747
• ISBN-10: 0199892741
• Artikelnr.: 36649037

Autorenporträt

Maryanne L. Fisher, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and member of the Women and Gender Studies program at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada. Justin R. Garcia, M.S., Ph.D., is CTRD Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and member of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Rosemarie Sokol Chang, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at State University of New York at New Paltz.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Overdue Dialogues: Foreword to Evolution's Empress
* Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
* Introduction
* Introduction to Evolution's Empress
* Maryanne L. Fisher, Rosemarie Sokol Chang, and Justin R. Garcia
* Part One: Sex Roles, Competition and Cooperation
* 1. Women's Intrasexual Competition for Mates
* Maryanne L. Fisher
* 2. The Tangled Web She Weaves: The Evolution of Female-female
Aggression and Status-seeking
* Laurette Liesen
* 3. Getting by with a Little Help From Friends: The Importance of
Social Bonds for Female Primates
* Liza R. Moscovice
* 4. A Sex-Neutral Theoretical Framework for Making Strong-Inferences
about the Origins of Sex Roles
* Patricia Adair Gowaty
* Part Two: Mothers and Parenting
* 5. Mothers, Traditions, and the Human Strategy to Leave Descendants
* Kathryn Coe and Craig T. Palmer
* 6. Maternal Effect and Offspring Development
* Nicole M. Cameron and Justin R. Garcia
* 7. The Evolution of Flexible Parenting
* Lesley Newson and Peter J. Richerson
* 8. Human Attachment Vocalizations and the Expanding Notion of Nurture
* Rosemarie Sokol Chang
* 9. Fathers vs. Sons: Why Jocasta Matters
* Laura Betzig
* Part Three: Health and Reproduction
* 10. Women's Health at the Crossroads of Evolution and Epidemiology
* Chris Reiber
* 11. Fertility: Life History and Ecological Aspects
* Bobbi S. Low
* 12. Reproductive Strategies in Female Post-generative Life
* Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland, and Kai Willführ
* 13. Now or Later: Peripartum Shifts in Female Sociosexuality
* Michelle Escasa-Dorne, Sharon M. Young, and Peter Gray
* Part Four: Mating and Communication
* 14. Sexual Conflict in White-faced Capuchins: It's Not Whether You
Win or Lose
* Linda Fedigan and Katharine Jack
* 15. The Importance of Female Choice: Evolutionary Perspectives on
Constraints, Expressions, and Variations in Female Mating Strategies
* David Frederick, Tania Reynolds, and Brooke Scelza
* 16. Swept off Their Feet? Females' Strategic Mating Behavior as a
Means of Supplying the Broom
* Christopher J. Wilbur and Lorne Campbell
* 17. Sex and Gender Differences in Communication Strategies
* Elisabeth Oberzaucher
* Part Five: New Disciplinary Frontiers
* 18. A New View of Evolutionary Psychology Using Female Priorities and
Motivations
* Tami Meredith and Maryanne Fisher
* 19. From Reproductive Resource to Autonomous Individuality: Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre
* Nancy Easterlin
* 20. The Empress's Clothes
* Julie Seaman
* 21. Consuming Midlife Motherhood: Cooperative Breeding and the
'Disestablishment' of the Reproductive Clock in the Postindustrial
Era
* Michele Pridmore-Brown
* 22. The Quick and the Dead: Gendered Agency in the History of Western
Science and Evolutionary Theory
* Leslie L. Heywood