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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828016003321

Titolo

Evolution, gender, and rape / / edited by Cheryl Brown Travis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2003

ISBN

0-262-28515-0

0-585-45063-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 p.)

Collana

A Bradford book.

Altri autori (Persone)

TravisCheryl Brown <1944->

Disciplina

364.15/32

Soggetti

Rape

Men - Sexual behavior

Human evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Evolutionary Models and Gender -- 1 -  Talking Evolution and Selling Difference -- 2 -  Female Sexuality and the Myth of Male Control -- 3 - Power Asymmetries between the Sexes, Mate Preferences, and Components of Fitness -- 4 - Does Self-Report Make Sense as an Investigative Method in Evolutionary Psychology? -- 5 - Understanding Rape -- 6 - Pop Sociobiology Reborn: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Violence -- Critiquing Evolutionary Models of Rape -- 7 - Of Vice and Men: A Case Study in Evolutionary Psychology -- 8 - Evolutionary Models of Why Men Rape: Acknowledging the Complexities -- 9 - Theory and Data on Rape and Evolution -- 10 - An Unnatural History of Rape -- 11 -  Violence against Science: Rape and Evolution -- Integrative and Cultural Models of Gender and Rape -- 12 - The Origins of Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Evolved Dispositions versus Social Roles -- 13 - The Evolutionary Value of the Man (to) Child Affiliative Bond: Closer to Obligate Than to Facultative -- 14 - Rape-Free versus Rape-Prone: How Culture Makes a Difference -- 15 - What Is "Rape?"-Toward a Historical, Ethnographic Approach -- 16 - Understanding Rape: A Metatheoretical Framework -- 17 - Coming Full Circle: Refuting Biological Determinism -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Multidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation.