The Evolving Female
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The Evolving Female
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Author : Mary Ellen Morbeck
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1996-12-09
The Evolving Female written by Mary Ellen Morbeck and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-09 with Science categories.
A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual female plays out the stages of her life--from infancy, through the reproductive period, to old age--and how these stages have been formed by a long evolutionary process, is the theme of this collection. Written by leading scholars in fields ranging from evolutionary biology to cultural anthropology, these essays together examine what it means to be female, integrating the life histories of marine mammals, monkeys, apes, and humans. The result is a fascinating inquiry into the similarities among the ways females of different species balance the need for survival with their role in reproduction and mothering. The Evolving Female offers an outlook integrating life history with an intimate examination of female life paths. Behavior, anatomy and physiology, growth and development, cultural identity of women, the individual, and the society are among the topics investigated. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Linda Fedigan, Kathryn Ono, Joanne Reiter, Barbara Smuts, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Mary McDonald Pavelka, Caroline Pond, Robin McFarland, Silvana Borgognini Tarli and Elena Repetto, Gilda Morelli, Patricia Draper, Catherine Panter-Brick, Virginia J. Vitzthum, Alison Jolly, and Beverly McLeod.
The Evolving Female
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-01-01
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The Woman That Never Evolved
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Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Woman That Never Evolved written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Science categories.
What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
The Evolving Female
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Author : Carol Landau Heckerman
language : en
Publisher: New York : Human Sciences Press
Release Date : 1980
The Evolving Female written by Carol Landau Heckerman and has been published by New York : Human Sciences Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
Experts outline the ways that society's changed perceptions of women have altered the approach to women's mental health problems and the treatment techniques of psychotherapy.
The Evolution Of Woman
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Author : Eliza Burt Gamble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Evolution Of Woman written by Eliza Burt Gamble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Dominance (Psychology) categories.
The Case Of The Female Orgasm
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Author : Elisabeth A. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07
The Case Of The Female Orgasm written by Elisabeth A. Lloyd and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with Medical categories.
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm.
The Evolving Female
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Author : Carol Landau Heckerman
language : en
Publisher: New York : Human Sciences Press
Release Date : 1980
The Evolving Female written by Carol Landau Heckerman and has been published by New York : Human Sciences Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
Experts outline the ways that society's changed perceptions of women have altered the approach to women's mental health problems and the treatment techniques of psychotherapy.
The Evolutionary Biology Of Human Female Sexuality
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Author : Randy Thornhill
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-25
The Evolutionary Biology Of Human Female Sexuality written by Randy Thornhill and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-25 with Psychology categories.
Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional wisdom asserts that women's estrus has been evolutionarily lost, Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad assert that it is present, though concealed. Women, they propose, therefore exhibit two sexualities each ovulatory cycle-estrus and sexuality outside of the estrous phase, extended sexuality-that possess distinct functions. Synthesizing research in behavioral evolution and comparative biology, the authors provide a new theoretical framework for understanding the evolution of human female sexuality, one that is rooted in female sexuality and phylogeny across all vertebrate animals.
The Nature And Evolution Of Female Sexuality
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Author : Mary Jane Sherfey
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Release Date : 1973
The Nature And Evolution Of Female Sexuality written by Mary Jane Sherfey and has been published by Vintage Books USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Medical categories.
The Woman That Never Evolved
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Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Woman That Never Evolved written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
The author dispels some of the myths about the nature of females and female sexuality, and suggests new hypotheses aboutthe evolution of women.