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Title Evolution, gender, and rape / edited by Cheryl Brown Travis
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 454 pages) : illustrations
Series A Bradford book
Bradford book
Contents Talking evolution and selling difference / Cheryl Brown Travis -- Female sexuality and the myth of male control / Christine M. Drea and Kim Wallen -- Power asymmetries between the sexes, mate preferences, and components of fitness / Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Does self-report make sense as an investigative method in evolutionary psychology? / Stephanie A. Shields and Pamela Steinke -- Understanding rape / Ethel Tobach and Rachel Reed -- Pop sociobiology reborn : the evolutionary psychology of sex and violence / A. Leah Vickers and Philip Kitcher
Of vice and men : a case study in evolutionary psychology / Jerry A. Coyne -- Evolutionary models of why men rape : acknowledging the complexities / Mary P. Koss -- Theory and data on rape and evolution / Cheryl Brown Travis -- Unnatural history of rape / Michael Kimmel -- Violence against science : rape and evolution / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- Origins of sex differences in human behavior : evolved dispositions versus social roles / Alice H. Eagly and Wendy Wood -- Evolutionary value of the man (to) child affiliative bond : closer to oblibgate than to facultative / Wade C. Mackey
Rape-free versus rape-prone : how culture makes a difference / Peggy Reeves Sanday -- "What is rape?"-toward a historical, ethnographic approach / Emily Martin -- Understanding rape : a metatheoretical framework / Jacquelyn W. White and Lori A. Post -- Coming full circle : refuting biological determinism / Sue V. Rosser
Summary Multidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Thornhill, Randy. Natural history of rape
Rape.
Men -- Sexual behavior.
Human evolution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
Human evolution
Men -- Sexual behavior
Rape
Verkrachting.
Mannen.
Sekseverschillen.
Form Electronic book
Author Travis, Cheryl Brown, 1944-
ISBN 9780262285155
0262285150
0585450633
9780585450636
9780262201438
0262201437
9780262700900
0262700905
1282099906
9781282099906