Griet Vandermassen

Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin?

Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

The relationship between feminism and the biological sciences has always been particularly tense and hostile. Feminists have been inclined not to trust what scientists had to say about the sexes, with science often being pronounced a Owhite, male enterprise.O But why should feminism and the biological sciences remain at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Griet Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences, and in particular evolutionary psychology, have the potential and the need to become powerful allies. Properly understood, the Darwinian perspective proposed in this volume will become essential to tackling the major issues in feminism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780742543515
• ISBN-10: 074254351X
• Artikelnr.: 22067951

Autorenporträt

Griet Vandermassen is a philosopher and research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Ghent, Belgium, where she is currently completing her doctoral studies. She has written on evolutionary psychology, feminist theory, and the history and philosophy of science in such publications as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Women's Studies, and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Elusive Definitions
Chapter 5 Heterogeneity: Problem or Merit? Chapter 6 Sex and Gender Chapter
7 The Missing Link Chapter 8 Plan of the Book Part 9 Science and Its
Problems Chapter 10 Introduction Chapter 11 Misogyny in Science: Facts
about the Past Chapter 12 Fables about the Past Chapter 13 Facts and Fables
about the Present Chapter 14 The Social Embeddedness of Science Chapter 15
Answers to Scientific Relativism Part 16 Feminist Views of Science Chapter
17 Introduction Chapter 18 Empiricism: The Belief in Gender-Free Science
Chapter 19 Standpoint Theory: The Objectivity of Science Questioned Chapter
20 Scientific Contributions of Standpoint Theory Chapter 21 Postmodernism:
The Whole Project of Science Questioned Chapter 22 Should Science Be
Politically Progressive? Chapter 23 Does Feminist Science Exist? Part 24
The Sexes since Darwin Chapter 25 Introduction Chapter 26 The World before
Darwin Chapter 27 Evolution by Natural Selection Chapter 28 Social
Darwinism Chapter 29 Evolution by Sexual Selection Chapter 30 Darwin and
the 'Coy' Female Chapter 31 Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The Road not taken
Chapter 32 The 1930s and the Rise of Ethology Chapter 33 Women in
Primatology Chapter 34 The 1960s and Inclusive Fitness Theory Chapter 35
The 1970s and Parental Investment Theory Chapter 36 Costly Eggs and Cheap
Sperm: But Is It True? Part 37 Biophobia within Feminism Chapter 38
Introduction Chapter 39 Fear of Sex Differences Chapter 40 Intellectual
Developments at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 41 The Rise of
Behaviourism Chapter 42 Cultural Anthropology: To Tropical Paradises and
Back Again Chapter 43 Social Constructionism, Environmentalism, and the
Left Chapter 44 The Nature-Nurture Controversy Chapter 45 The Myth of
Genetic Determinism Chapter 46 The Naturalistic Fallacy Chapter 47 Current
Socialisation Theories Chapter 48 Evaluating Some Environmentalist
Contentions Part 49 Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology Chapter 50
Introduction Chapter 51 Proximate and Ultimate Levels of Explanation
Chapter 52 Sociobiology: Of Genes and Men Chapter 53 Sarah Hrdy and the
Lusty Female Chapter 54 Other Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Chapter 55
Moral Reading Chapter 56 Cognitive Science Setting the Stage for
Evolutionary Psychology Chapter 57 The Mind as a Swiss Army Knife Chapter
58 Indications of a Panhuman Design Chapter 59 Characteristics of
Adaptations Chapter 60 Is Evolutionary Psychology Scientifically
Defensible? Part 61 A Metatheory for Feminism Chapter 62 Introduction
Chapter 63 Feminist Observations Chapter 64 The Seeds of Adulthood Chapter
65 Sexual Selection as an Origin Theory Chapter 66 An Evolved Male
Psychology Chapter 67 An Evolved Female Psychology Chapter 68 Benefits of
an Evolutionary Framework Chapter 69 The Evolutionary Origins of Patriarchy
Chapter 70 Towards a Darwinian Left Part 71 Conclusion Part 72 Bibliography