Rosemary Hopcroft

Evolution and Gender (eBook, ePUB)

Why It Matters for Contemporary Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering new research and analysis on the relation between gender and evolution, this book explains conflict between the sexes and the frequent emergence and stubborn continuation of patriarchal regimes that serve to control the behavior of women in societies around the world, both past and present. Women and men are different, on average. But that does not mean they are unequal. Indeed, understanding average differences is key to the full realization of equality in health care and other dimensions of social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317353294
• Artikelnr.: 44753020

Autorenporträt

Rosemary L. Hopcroft is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published widely in the areas of comparative and historical sociology and evolution, biology, and society in journals that include the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces. She is the author of Sociology: A Bio-Social Introduction (Paradigm 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Evolutionary theory and the Sociology of Gender- A bad beginning
Part II: Sex Differences in Evolved Mating Strategies
Chapter 2: Gender and evolution
Chapter 3: Women's evolved long term mating strategies
Chapter 4: Men's evolved long term mating strategies
Chapter 5: What is beauty? Why do we want it?
Chapter 6: Sex differences in short term sexual strategies
Part III. Women and Men
Chapter 7: Evolutionary origins of patriarchy: Societal control of women
through the ages
Chapter 8: Physiological differences between the sexes
Chapter 9: Cognitive differences between the sexes
Chapter 10: An evolutionary view of the reproductive lifecourse of women
Chapter 11: Sex differences in aggression and criminality
Chapter 12: Sex differences in status striving
Chapter 13: Gender and emotion
Part IV. Implications of Sex Differences
Chapter 14: Parental strategies: Differences by child's gender
Chapter 15: Boys and girls in school
Chapter 16: Conflict between the sexes
Chapter 17: But can they talk it out? Problems of communication
Chapter 18: Conclusion