Feminism and Evolutionary Biology Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers
Standing at the intersection of evolutionary biology and feminist theory is a large audience interested in the questions one field raises for the other. Have evolutionary biologists worked largely or strictly within a masculine paradigm, seeing males as evolving and females as merely reacting passiv...
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New York, NY
Springer US
1997, 1997
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Table of Contents:
- 22 Inextricably Entwined: Politics, Biology, and Gender-Dimorphic behavior
- 23 Commentary
- 24 Parental Investment—Minding the Kids or Keeping Control?
- 25 The Emperor’s Moth
- 26 On Science, Identity Politics, and Group-Speak
- 27 Telling the Stories of Life and Refraining the Questions: Evolutionary Biology and Feminism
- 28 Females and Feminists, Science and Politics, Evolution and Change: An Essay
- Section VII Permeable Boundaries
- 29 Myths of Genetic Determinism
- 11 The “Nature” of Sex Differences: Myths of Male and Female
- 12 The Role of Females in Extra Pair Copulations in Socially Monogamous Territorial Animals
- 13 Mate Choice and Intrasexual Reproductive Competition: Contributions to Reproduction That Go Beyond Acquiring More Mates
- 14 Female Influences on Male Reproductive Success
- 15 Sexual Dialectics, Sexual Selection, and Variation in Reproductive behavior
- 16 “In the Belly of the Monster”: Feminism, Developmental Systems, and Evolutionary Explanations
- Section V Darwinian Feminism and Human Affairs
- 17 Darwinian Medicine Dawning in a Feminist Light
- 18 Femicide: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
- 19 The Evolutionary History of Human Parental Investment in Relation to Population Growth and Social Stratification
- 20 Female Choice in the Context of Artificial Insemination by Donor
- 21 An Empirical Test of the Bodyguard Hypothesis
- Section VI Boundary Battles and Frontier Conflicts
- 1 Introduction: Darwinian Feminists and Feminist Evolutionists
- Section I Feminist Biologists Looking at Feminist Evolutionary Biologists
- 2 Possible Implications of Feminist Theories for the Study of Evolution
- 3 Feminism and Behavioral Evolution: A Taxonomy
- Section II Feminist Biologists Critique Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 4 The Mask of Theory and the Face of Nature
- 5 Quantitative Genetics, Feminism, and Evolutionary Theories of Gender Differences
- 6 The Curious Courtship of Sociobiology and Feminism: A Case of Irreconcilable Differences
- Section III Practical Issues: The Feminism Question in Science
- 7 Hiring Selection
- 8 A Feeling for the Organism? An Empirical Look at Gender and Research Choices of Animal Behaviorists
- Section IV On and Beyond the Female Perspective
- 9 Sexual Alliances: Evidence and Evolutionary Implications
- 10 Male and Female Perceptions of Pair-Bond Dynamics: Monogamy in Western Gulls, Larus occidentalis