Evolution's Empress
Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199892747
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 239x152x30 mm
- Weight 885 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Effectively dismantling misguided assumptions that women take on passive roles when it comes to survival and reproduction, Evolution's Empress addresses women as active agents within the evolutionary process.
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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.
Who should read Evolution's Empress? Unquestionably, anyone in the field of evolutionary psychology (or parellel specialties in anthropology and biology) would want to have the book. Indeed, I would go out on a limb and say that it would have to be included in the top tier of contemporary books in the field. Beyond these professionals, the book's readability makes its contents accessible to any person interested in the latest thoughts on the nature of human nature. It really is that good.
Table of Contents:
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
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