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Evolution's Empress - Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women (Hardcover, New)
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Evolution's Empress - Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women (Hardcover, New)
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Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate as to
whether feminism and evolutionary psychology can co-exist. Such
debates often conclude with a resounding "no," often on the grounds
that the former is a political movement while the latter is a field
of scientific inquiry. In the midst of these debates, there has
been growing dissatisfaction within the field of evolutionary
psychology about the way the discipline (and others) have
repeatedly shown women to be in passive roles when it comes to
survival and reproduction. Evolutionary behavioral research has
made significant strides in the past few decades, but continues to
take for granted many theoretical assumption that are perhaps, in
light of the most recent evidence, misguided. As a result, the
research community has missed important areas of research, and in
some cases, will likely come to inaccurate conclusions based on
existing dogma, rather than rigorous, theoretically driven
research. Bias in the field of evolutionary psychology echoes the
complaints against the political movement attached to academic
feminisms. This is an intellectual squabble where much is at stake,
including a fundamental understanding of the evolutionary
significance of women's roles in culture, mothering, reproductive
health and physiology, mating, female alliances, female aggression,
and female intrasexual competition.
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
generating dialogue between the realms of women's studies and
evolutionary psychology.
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