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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974465103321

Autore

Seabright Paul

Titolo

The war of the sexes : how conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from prehistory to the present / / Paul Seabright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613589668

9781280494437

1280494433

9781400841608

1400841607

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

306.709

Soggetti

Sex (Psychology)

Sex differences (Psychology)

Interpersonal relations

Men - Psychology

Women - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Prehistory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sex ans Salesmanship -- 3. Seduction and the Emotions -- 4. Social Primates -- Part II. Today -- 5. Testing for Talent -- 6. What Do Women Want? -- 7. Coalitions of the Willing -- 8. The Scarcity of Charm -- 9. The Tender War -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still



holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed by the modern information economy. Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020976503321

Autore

Ranzato, Gabriele

Titolo

Eroi pericolosi : la lotta armata dei comunisti nella Resistenza / Gabriele Ranzato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari ; Roma, : Laterza, 2024

ISBN

978-88-581-5556-1

Descrizione fisica

404 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Cultura storica

Disciplina

940.5345

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

STO 462

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia