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Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women

Maryanne L. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia, and Rosemarie Sokol Chang

Abstract

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 g ... More

Keywords: emale social interactions, mate competition, mating strategies, motherhood, women’s health, sex differences, sex discrimination, women in literature

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199892747
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2013 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199892747.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Maryanne L. Fisher, editor
Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University

Justin R. Garcia, editor
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington

Rosemarie Sokol Chang, editor
State University of New York New Paltz and Southern New Hampshire University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Overdue Dialogues: Foreword to Evolution’s Empress

Introduction to Evolution’s Empress

Maryanne L. Fisher, Rosemarie Sokol Chang, and Justin R. Garcia

Section One Sex Roles, Competition, and Cooperation

1 Women’s Intrasexual Competition for Mates

Maryanne L. Fisher

2 The Tangled Web She Weaves

Laurette Liesen

3 Getting by With a Little Help From Friends

Liza R. Moscovice

4 A Sex-Neutral Theoretical Framework for Making Strong Inferences About the Origins of Sex Roles

Patricia Adair Gowaty

Section 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 Versus Sons

Laura Betzig

Section Three Health and Reproduction

10 Women’s Health at the Crossroads of Evolution and Epidemiology

Chris Reiber

11 Fertility

Bobbi S. Low

12 Reproductive Strategies in Female Postgenerative Life

Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland, and Kai P. Willführ

13 Now or Later

Michelle J. Escasa-Dorne, Sharon M. Young, and Peter B. Gray

Section Four Mating and Communication

14 Sexual Conflict in White-Faced Capuchins

Linda Marie Fedigan, and Katharine M. Jack

15 The Importance of Female Choice

David A. Frederick, Tania A. Reynolds, and Maryanne L. Fisher

16 Swept off Their Feet?

Christopher J. Wilbur, and Lorne Campbell

17 Sex and Gender Differences in Communication Strategies

Elisabeth Oberzaucher

Section Five New Disciplinary Frontiers

18 A New View of Evolutionary Psychology Using Women’s Priorities and Motivations

Tami Meredith

19 From Reproductive Resource to Autonomous Individuality? Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Nancy Easterlin

20 The Empress’s Clothes

Julie Seaman

21 Consuming Midlife Motherhood

Michele Pridmore-Brown

22 The Quick and the Dead

Leslie L. Heywood

End Matter

Index