Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray / Helen Fisher, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Helen E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage.

Adultery.

Divorce.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

xii, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm

Edition:

Completely revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Summary:

Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance. By the author of Why We Love. --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue : Here's to love

Games people play : Courting

Why him? why her? : The drive to love and who we choose

Is monogamy natural? : Of human bonding ... and cheating

Why adultery? : The nature of philandering

Blueprint for divorce : The three- to four-year itch

"When wild in woods the noble savage ran" : Life in the trees

Out of Eden : On the origin of monogamy and desertion

The tyranny of love : Evolution of attachment and love addictions

Dressed to impress : Nature's lures for seduction

Men and women are like two feet: they need each other to get ahead : Gender differences in mind

Women, men, and power : The nature of sexual politics

Almost human : Genesis of kinship and the teenager

The first affluent society : "That short but imperious word, 'ought'"

Fickle passion : Romance in yesteryears

"Till death us do part" : Birth of sexual double standards

Future sex : Slow love and forward to the past.

Notes:

Revised edition of the author's Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-426) and index.

ISBN:

9780393285222

0393285227

OCLC:

929863086