Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? (eBook)

Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory

Griet Vandermassen (Autor)

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2005
248 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4616-4707-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Why should feminism and the biological sciences be at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences-and in particular evolutionary psychology-have the need and the potential to become powerful allies. Properly understood, the Darwinian perspective proposed in this volume will become essential to tackling the major issues in feminism.

Autor

Griet Vandermassen is a philosopher and research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Ghent, Belgium, where she is currently completing her doctoral studies. She has written on evolutionary psychology, feminist theory, and the history and philosophy of science in such publications as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, European Journal of Women's Studies, and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Inhalt

Part 2 AcknowledgementsPart 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Elusive DefinitionsChapter 5 Heterogeneity: Problem or Merit?Chapter 6 Sex and GenderChapter 7 The Missing LinkChapter 8 Plan of the BookPart 9 Science and Its ProblemsChapter 10 IntroductionChapter 11 Misogyny in Science: Facts about the PastChapter 12 Fables about the PastChapter 13 Facts and Fables about the PresentChapter 14 The Social Embeddedness of ScienceChapter 15 Answers to Scientific RelativismPart 16 Feminist Views of ScienceChapter 17 IntroductionChapter 18 Empiricism: The Belief in Gender-Free ScienceChapter 19 Standpoint Theory: The Objectivity of Science QuestionedChapter 20 Scientific Contributions of Standpoint TheoryChapter 21 Postmodernism: The Whole Project of Science QuestionedChapter 22 Should Science Be Politically Progressive?Chapter 23 Does Feminist Science Exist?Part 24 The Sexes since DarwinChapter 25 IntroductionChapter 26 The World before DarwinChapter 27 Evolution by Natural SelectionChapter 28 Social DarwinismChapter 29 Evolution by Sexual SelectionChapter 30 Darwin and the 'Coy' FemaleChapter 31 Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The Road not takenChapter 32 The 1930s and the Rise of EthologyChapter 33 Women in PrimatologyChapter 34 The 1960s and Inclusive Fitness TheoryChapter 35 The 1970s and Parental Investment TheoryChapter 36 Costly Eggs and Cheap Sperm: But Is It True?Part 37 Biophobia within FeminismChapter 38 IntroductionChapter 39 Fear of Sex DifferencesChapter 40 Intellectual Developments at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 41 The Rise of BehaviourismChapter 42 Cultural Anthropology: To Tropical Paradises and Back AgainChapter 43 Social Constructionism, Environmentalism, and the LeftChapter 44 The Nature-Nurture ControversyChapter 45 The Myth of Genetic DeterminismChapter 46 The Naturalistic FallacyChapter 47 Current Socialisation TheoriesChapter 48 Evaluating Some Environmentalist ContentionsPart 49 Sociobiology and Evolutionary PsychologyChapter 50 IntroductionChapter 51 Proximate and Ultimate Levels of ExplanationChapter 52 Sociobiology: Of Genes and MenChapter 53 Sarah Hrdy and the Lusty FemaleChapter 54 Other Feminist Critiques of SociobiologyChapter 55 Moral ReadingChapter 56 Cognitive Science Setting the Stage for Evolutionary PsychologyChapter 57 The Mind as a Swiss Army KnifeChapter 58 Indications of a Panhuman DesignChapter 59 Characteristics of AdaptationsChapter 60 Is Evolutionary Psychology Scientifically Defensible?Part 61 A Metatheory for FeminismChapter 62 IntroductionChapter 63 Feminist ObservationsChapter 64 The Seeds of AdulthoodChapter 65 Sexual Selection as an Origin TheoryChapter 66 An Evolved Male PsychologyChapter 67 An Evolved Female PsychologyChapter 68 Benefits of an Evolutionary FrameworkChapter 69 The Evolutionary Origins of PatriarchyChapter 70 Towards a Darwinian LeftPart 71 ConclusionPart 72 Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2005
• Vorwort: Margo Wilson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-4707-X / 146164707X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-4707-2 / 9781461647072