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Evolution's empress : Darwinian perspectives on the nature of women / edited by Maryanne L. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia, Rosemarie Sokol Chang.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Sex differences (Psychology).
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (506 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Evolution's Empress' identifies women as active agents within the evolutionary process. Chapters 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 behaviour have thus far been too limited.
- Contents:
- Women's Intrasexual Competition for Mates / Maryanne L. Fisher
- The Tangled Web She Weaves: The Evolution of Female-female Aggression and Status-seeking / Laurette Liesen
- Getting by with a Little Help From Friends: The Importance of Social Bonds for Female Primates / Liza R. Moscovice
- A Sex-Neutral Theoretical Framework for Making Strong Inferences about the Origins of Sex Roles / Patricia Adair Gowaty
- Mothers, Traditions, and the Human Strategy to Leave Descendants / Kathryn Coe and Craig T. Palmer
- Maternal Effect and Offspring Development / Nicole M. Cameron and Justin R. Garcia
- The Evolution of Flexible Parenting / Lesley Newson and Peter J. Richerson
- Human Attachment Vocalizations and the Expanding Notion of Nurture / Rosemarie Sokol Chang
- Fathers versus Sons: Why Jocasta Matters / Laura Betzig
- Women's Health at the Crossroads of Evolution and Epidemiology / Chris Reiber
- Fertility: Life History and Ecological Aspects / Bobbi S. Low
- Reproductive Strategies in Female Post Generative Life / Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland, and Kai Willfuhr
- Now or Later: Peripartum Shifts in Female Sociosexuality / Michelle Escasa-Dorne, Sharon M. Young, and Peter Gray
- Sexual Conflict in White-faced Capuchins: It's Not Whether You Win or Lose / Linda Fedigan and Katharine M. Jack
- The Importance of Female Choice: Evolutionary Perspectives on Constraints, Expressions, and Variations in Female Mating Strategies / David A. Frederick, Tania A. Reynolds, and Maryanne L. Fisher
- Swept off Their Feet? Females' Strategic Mating Behavior as a Means of Supplying the Broom / Christopher J. Wilbur and Lorne Campbell
- Sex and Gender Differences in Communication Strategies / Elisabeth Oberzaucher
- A New View of Evolutionary Psychology Using Female Priorities and Motivations / Tami Meredith
- From Reproductive Resource to Autonomous Individuality? Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre / Nancy Easterlin
- The Empress's Clothes / Julie Seaman
- Consuming Midlife Motherhood: Cooperative Breeding and the 'Disestablishment' of the Biological Clock / Michele Pridmore-Brown
- The Quick and the Dead: Gendered Agency in the History of Western Science and Evolutionary Theory / Leslie L. Heywood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-989274-1
- 0-19-989275-X
- OCLC:
- 922972795
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