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Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? : Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory.

The relationship between feminism and the biological sciences has always been particularly tense and hostile. Feminists have been inclined not to trust what scientists had to say about the sexes, with science often being pronounced a Owhite, male enterprise. O But why should feminism and the biologi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vandermassen, Griet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
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505 0 |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 -- Science and Its Problems; Misogyny in Science: Facts about the Past; Fables about the Past; Facts and Fables about the Present; The Social Embeddedness of Science; Answers to Scientific Relativism; Notes; 2 -- Feminist Views of Science; Empiricism: The Belief in Gender-Free Science; Standpoint Theory: The Objectivity of Science Questioned; Postmodernism: The Whole Project of Science Questioned; Should Science Be Politically Progressive?; Does Feminist Science Exist?; Notes; 3 -- The Sexes since Darwin. 
505 8 |a The World before DarwinEvolution by Natural Selection; Social Darwinism; Evolution by Sexual Selection; Darwin and the "Coy" Female; Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The Road Not Taken; The 1930s and the Rise of Ethology; Women in Primatology; The 1960s and Inclusive Fitness Theory; The 1970s and Parental Investment Theory; Costly Eggs and Cheap Sperm: But Is It True?; Notes; 4 -- Biophobia within Feminism; Fear of Sex Differences; Intellectual Developments at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; The Rise of Behaviorism; Cultural Anthropology: To Tropical Paradises and Back Again. 
505 8 |a Social Constructionism, Environmentalism, and the LeftThe Nature-Nurture Controversy; The Myth of Genetic Determinism; The Naturalistic Fallacy; Current Socialization Theories; Notes; Evaluating Some Environmentalist Contentions; 5 -- Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology; Proximate and Ultimate Levels of Explanation; Sociobiology: Of Genes and Men; Sarah Hrdy and the Lusty Female; Other Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology; Moral Reading; Cognitive Science Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Psychology; The Mind as a Swiss Army Knife; Indications of a Panhuman Design. 
505 8 |a Characteristics of AdaptationsIs Evolutionary Psychology Scientifically Defensible?; Notes; 6 -- A Metatheory for Feminism; Feminist Observations; The Seeds of Adulthood; Sexual Selection as an Origin Theory; An Evolved Male Psychology; An Evolved Female Psychology; Benefits of an Evolutionary Framework; The Evolutionary Origins of Patriarchy; Toward a Darwinian Left; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 
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