Feminism and Evolutionary Biology: Boundaries, Intersections, and FrontiersPatricia Gowaty Springer Science & Business Media, 1997 M01 31 - 623 pages 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 passively or carried along with the tide? Would our view of nature `red in tooth in claw' be different if women had played a larger role in the creation of evolutionary theory and through education in its transmission to younger generations? Is there any such thing as a feminist science or feminist methodology? For feminists, does any kind of biological determinism undermine their contention that gender roles purely constructed, not inherent in the human species? Does the study of animals have anything to say to those preoccupied with the evolution and behavior of humans? All these questions and many more are addressed by this book, whose contributing authors include leading scholars in both feminism and evolutionary biology. Bound to be controversial, this book is addressed to evolutionary biologists and to feminists and to the large number of people interested in women's studies. |
Contents
Darwinian Feminists and Feminist | 1 |
Possible Implications of Feminist Theories for | 21 |
A Taxonomy | 42 |
The Mask of Theory and the Face of Nature | 63 |
1 | 70 |
27 | 81 |
A Case of Irreconcilable Differences | 116 |
Hiring Selection | 153 |
Systems and Evolutionary Explanations | 385 |
Darwinian Medicine Dawning in a Feminist Light | 417 |
An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective | 431 |
Investment in Relation to Population Growth | 466 |
Female Choice in the Context of Artificial Insemination | 489 |
An Empirical Test of the Bodyguard Hypothesis | 505 |
Politics Biology and Gender | 515 |
Commentary | 522 |
A Feeling for the Organism? An Empirical Look | 184 |
Evidence and Evolutionary | 207 |
and Female | 276 |
The Role of Females in Extra Pair Copulations | 294 |
Mate Choice and Intrasexual Reproductive | 320 |
Female Influences on Male Reproductive Success | 334 |
Sexual Dialectics Sexual Selection and Variation | 351 |
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