Evolution's Empress (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate as to whether feminism and evolutionary psychology can co-exist. Such debates often conclude with a resounding "no," often on the grounds that the former is a political movement while the latter is a field of scientific inquiry. In the midst of these debates, there has been growing dissatisfaction within the field of evolutionary psychology about the way the discipline (and others) have repeatedly shown women to be in passive roles when it comes to survival and reproduction. Evolutionary behavioral research has made significant strides in the past few decades, but continues to take for granted many theoretical assumption that are perhaps, in light of the most recent evidence, misguided. As a result, the research community has missed important areas of research, and in some cases, will likely come to inaccurate conclusions based on existing dogma, rather than rigorous, theoretically driven research. Bias in the field of evolutionary psychology echoes the complaints against the political movement attached to academic feminisms. This is an intellectual squabble where much is at stake, including a fundamental understanding of the evolutionary significance of women's roles in culture, mothering, reproductive health and physiology, mating, female alliances, female aggression, and female intrasexual competition. Evolution's Empress identifies women as active agents within the evolutionary process. The chapters in this volume focus on topics as diverse as female social interactions, mate competition and mating strategies, motherhood, women's health, sex differences in communication and motivation, sex discrimination, and women in literature. The volume editors bring together a diverse range of perspectives to demonstrate ways in which evolutionary approaches to human behavior have thus far been too limited. By reconsidering the role of women in evolution, this volume furthers the goal of generating dialogue between the realms of women's studies and evolutionary psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199892754
• Artikelnr.: 40175737

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