Different gender through the eyes of a primatologist
"New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and gender in both humans and other animals. Though many scholars now argue that gender differences are purely a product of socialization, primatologist Frans de Waal illustrates in Different the scientif...
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Toys are us: how boys, girls, and other primates play
- Gender: identity and self-socialization
- Six boys: growing up sisterless in the Netherlands
- The wrong metaphor: exaggerating primate patriarchy
- Bonobo sisterhood: the forgotten ape revisited
- Sexual signals: from genitals to faces to beauty
- The mating game: the myth of the demure female
- Violence: rape, murder, and the dogs of war
- Alpha (fe)males: the difference between dominance and power
- Keeping the peace: same-sex rivalry, friendship, and cooperation
- Nurturance: maternal and paternal care of the young
- Same-sex sex: animals carrying the rainbow flag
- The trouble with dualism: mind, brain, and body are one.
