Women In Human Evolution

✍ Scribed by Lori Hager

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I found this collection of essays generally disappointing though they may be of interest to those who are new to evolutionary theories or to the male bias within them.

I had expected greater insights into the possible life experiences of women during evolution such as the significance of mating systems (with probable female dispersal) and the consequences of this for all human relationships then and now.

The faults of male bias are revealed but unfortunately powerful alternatives are not provided.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 9
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
1 SEX AND GENDER IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY......Page 16
HOMINID FEMALES IN PREHISTORY......Page 19
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: GENDER, GIRAFFES AND GINGRICH......Page 23
SEX AND THE FOSSIL RECORD: “LUCY” VS. “SGT. PEPPER”......Page 24
WOMEN AS PALEOANTHROPOLOGISTS......Page 29
CONCLUSIONS......Page 34
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 35
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 36
WHAT IS FEMINISM?......Page 44
SO WHY ARE (SOME) FEMINISTS CONCERNED ABOUT SCIENCE?......Page 50
EQUITY ISSUES IN SCIENCE......Page 51
IMPLICATIONS FOR SCIENCE: CONTENT CRITIQUES......Page 58
CONCLUSIONS......Page 64
NOTES......Page 65
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 67
3 IS PRIMATOLOGY A FEMINIST SCIENCE?......Page 70
FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF SCIENCE......Page 72
FEMINIST MODELS OF SCIENCE......Page 74
FEMALE, FEMININE, AND FEMINIST SCIENCE......Page 76
WOMEN AND PRIMATOLOGY......Page 77
FEMINISM AND PRIMATOLOGY......Page 79
CONCLUSION......Page 83
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 84
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 85
WHO OWNS THE PAST?......Page 90
DISCIPLINES IN COLLISON......Page 91
ARCHETYPAL WORLDS......Page 92
WHO WAS AFRICAN “EVE”?......Page 93
RECOVERED GROUND......Page 95
AGAINST THE GRAIN......Page 97
PREMATURE JUDGEMENTS......Page 98
WHY AN ACCURATE VIEW OF HUMAN DIFFERENCES IS ESSENTIAL......Page 99
ONE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE......Page 100
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 101
INTRODUCTION......Page 106
THE 1950s: NEW VIEWS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION......Page 107
THE 1960S: CONSOLIDATION OF MAN THE HUNTER......Page 109
THE 1970s: WOMEN SCIENTISTS AND “WOMAN THE GATHERER”......Page 111
THE 1980s: TRENDS AND COUNTER-TRENDS......Page 114
THE 1990S: THE GLASS CEILING......Page 118
NOTES......Page 123
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 124
6 BRAIN EVOLUTION IN FEMALES......Page 130
SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE BRAIN......Page 132
SEX DIFFERENCES IN COGNITION......Page 135
THE EVOLUTION OF BRAIN LATERALIZATION......Page 140
EARLY HOMINID EVOLUTION......Page 142
THE EVOLUTION OF WOMEN:ANANSWER TO LOVEJOY......Page 145
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 148
7 A POUND OF BIOLOGY AND A PINCH OF CULTURE OR A PINCH OF BIOLOGY AND A POUND OF CULTURE?......Page 152
NONHUMAN PRIMATES......Page 156
MODERN HUMANS......Page 158
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 161
8 FEMALE PROTO-SYMBOLIC STRATEGIES......Page 168
FEMALE SEXUAL SIGNALS......Page 169
MENSTRUATION IN HUNTER-GATHERER ETHNOGRAPHY......Page 174
THE FOSSIL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE......Page 175
CONCLUSION......Page 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 182
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
THE IMAGERY OF “PALEOLITHIC ART” AND THE STRUCTURING OF INTERPRETATION......Page 189
ON AMBIVALENCES: THE CASE OF THE “VENUS” FIGURINES......Page 198
ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES? WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT IN OUR IMAGERY?......Page 211
SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS......Page 215
NOTES......Page 216
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 217
INDEX......Page 224