LEADER 04407nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910809141803321 005 20230422045941.0 010 $a0-674-26459-2 010 $a0-674-03887-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674038875 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805704 035 $a(DLC)99043596 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050738 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205624 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310169 035 $a(PQKB)10530784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300544 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300544 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318541 035 $a(OCoLC)923111694 035 $a(DE-B1597)588895 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674038875 035 $a(OCoLC)1322123997 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805704 100 $a19990802d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe woman that never evolved /$fSarah Blaffer Hrdy ; with a new preface and bibliographical updates 205 $aRev. ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (xxxii, 266 p. ) $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-95539-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [200]-251) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tPreface, 1999: On Raising Darwin?s Consciousness -- $t1 Some Women That Never Evolved -- $t2 An Initial Inequality -- $t3 Monogamous Primates: A Special Case -- $t4 A Climate for Dominant Females -- $t5 The Pros and Cons of Males -- $t6 Competition and Bonding among Females -- $t7 The Primate Origins of Female Sexuality -- $t8 A Disputed Legacy -- $tAfterword -- $tTaxonomy of the Primate Order -- $tNotes -- $tBibliographical Updates, 1999 -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited. 606 $aPrimates$xEvolution 606 $aWomen$xEvolution 606 $aFeminism 606 $aSociobiology 606 $aSex role 615 0$aPrimates$xEvolution. 615 0$aWomen$xEvolution. 615 0$aFeminism. 615 0$aSociobiology. 615 0$aSex role. 676 $a599.8138 700 $aHrdy$b Sarah Blaffer$f1946-$01670172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809141803321 996 $aThe woman that never evolved$94031857 997 $aUNINA