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Sexual Selections : What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals by Marlene Zuk (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520219740
ISBN-139780520219748
eBay Product ID (ePID)2005715
Product Key Features
Book TitleSexual Selections : What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals
Number of Pages250 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicLife Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Anthropology / Physical, Life Sciences / Biology, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Science
AuthorMarlene Zuk
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-005771
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal591.5/62
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Note on Species Names Introduction: An Ode to Witlessness Part One. Sexual Stereotypes and the Biases That Bind 1. Sex and the Death of a Loon 2. Substitute Stereotypes: The Myth of the Ecofeminist Animal 3. Selfless Motherhood and Other Unnatural Acts 4. DNA and the Meaning of Marriage 5. The Care and Management of Sperm Part Two. Unnatural Myths 6. Sex and the Scala Naturae (or, Worms in the Gutter) 7. Bonobos: Dolphins of the New Millennium 8. The Alpha Chicken Part Three. Human Evolutionary Perspectives 9. Soccer, Adaptation, and Orgasms 10. Sacred or Cellular: The Meaning of Menstruation 11. That's Not Sex, They're Just Glad to See Each Other 12. Can Voles Do Math? Conclusion: Unnatural Boundaries Selected Readings References Index
SynopsisScientific 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 to ask about animal behavior. Marlene Zuk, a respected biologist and a feminist, gives an eye-opening tour of some of the latest developments in our knowledge of animal sexuality and evolutionary biology. Sexual Selections 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. As she tells many amazing stories about animal behavior--whether of birds and apes or of rats and cockroaches--Zuk takes us to the places where our ideas about nature, gender, and culture collide. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, she discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation, and homosexuality. She shows how feminism can give us the tools to examine sensitive issues such as these and to enhance our understanding of the natural world if we avoid using research to champion a feminist agenda and avoid using animals as ideological weapons. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. This knowledge will give us a better understanding of animals and can ultimately change our assumptions about what is natural, normal, and even possible.
LC Classification NumberQL761
