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Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can´t Learn about Sex from Animals
Marlene Zuk
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Paperback. Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. This book exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases. Num Pages: 250 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHM; JMU; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions ... Read more
Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520240759
SKU
V9780520240759
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Ref
99-1
About Marlene Zuk
Marlene Zuk is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor, with J.E. Loye, of Bird-Parasite Interactions: Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour (1991).
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