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Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Adair Gowaty

    1. Institute of Ecology and Women’s Studies Program, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: Darwinian Feminists and Feminist Evolutionists

    1. Introduction: Darwinian Feminists and Feminist Evolutionists

      • Patricia Adair Gowaty
      Pages 1-17

  3. Feminist Biologists Looking at Feminist Evolutionary Biologists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Possible Implications of Feminist Theories for the Study of Evolution

      • Sue V. Rosser
      Pages 21-41

    3. Feminism and Behavioral Evolution: A Taxonomy

      • Anne Fausto-Sterling
      Pages 42-60

  4. Feminist Biologists Critique Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Mask of Theory and the Face of Nature

      • Marcy F. Lawton, William R. Garstka, J. Craig Hanks
      Pages 63-85

    3. Quantitative Genetics, Feminism, and Evolutionary Theories of Gender Differences

      • Victoria L. Sork
      Pages 86-115

    4. The Curious Courtship of Sociobiology and Feminism: A Case of Irreconcilable Differences

      • Zuleyma Tang-Martinez
      Pages 116-150

  5. Practical Issues: The Feminism Question in Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Hiring Selection

      • Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade
      Pages 153-183

    3. A Feeling for the Organism? An Empirical Look at Gender and Research Choices of Animal Behaviorists

      • Donna J. Holmes, Christine L. Hitchcock
      Pages 184-203

  6. On and Beyond the Female Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Sexual Alliances: Evidence and Evolutionary Implications

      • Sarah L. Mesnick
      Pages 207-260

    3. Male and Female Perceptions of Pair-Bond Dynamics: Monogamy in Western Gulls, Larus occidentalis

      • Raymond Pierotti, Cynthia A. Annett, Judith L. Hand
      Pages 261-275

    4. The “Nature” of Sex Differences: Myths of Male and Female

      • Charles T. Snowdon
      Pages 276-293

    5. The Role of Females in Extrapair Copulations in Socially Monogamous Territorial Animals

      • Judy Stamps
      Pages 294-319

    6. Mate Choice and Intrasexual Reproductive Competition: Contributions to Reproduction That Go Beyond Acquiring More Mates

      • Jeanne Altmann
      Pages 320-333

    7. Female Influences on Male Reproductive Success

      • Clark Barrett, Robert R. Warner
      Pages 334-350

    8. Sexual Dialectics, Sexual Selection, and Variation in Reproductive Behavior

      • Patricia Adair Gowaty
      Pages 351-384
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Ecology and Women’s Studies Program, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Patricia Adair Gowaty

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers

  • Editors: Patricia Adair Gowaty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-07361-8Published: 31 January 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5985-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 648

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology

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