Sexual Selections

by Zuk, Marlene

• ISBN13: 9780520240759
• ISBN10: 0520240758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Zuk is against using science as a weapon in the gender wars. This feminist animal behaviorist gives us a lively overview of non-human sexual behaviors and seeks to right the biases that have plagued the study of the subject. She warns us against using animals for our own political agendas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on Species Names	p. xi
Introduction: An Ode to Witlessness	p. 1
Sexual Stereotypes and the Biases that Bind
Sex and the Death of a Loon	p. 21
Substitute Stereotypes: The Myth of the Ecofeminist Animal	p. 34
Selfless Motherhood and Other Unnatural Acts	p. 47
Dna and the Meaning of Marriage	p. 61
The Care and Management of Sperm	p. 76
Unnatural Myths
Sex and the Scala Naturae (or, Worms in the Gutter)	p. 93
Bonobos: Dolphins of the New Millennium	p. 107
The Alpha Chicken	p. 121
Human Evolutionary Perspectives
Soccer, Adaptation, and Orgasms	p. 139
Sacred or Cellular: The Meaning of Menstruation	p. 153
That's Not Sex, They're Just Glad to See Each Other	p. 168
Can Voles Do Math?	p. 184
Conclusion: Unnatural Boundaries	p. 200
Selected Readings	p. 213
References	p. 219
Index	p. 229
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