1st Edition

Female Hierarchies

Edited By Lionel Tiger, Heather T. Fowler Copyright 2007
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Disproportionate attention has long been paid to males in human and other social systems. The basic structures used to explain social behavior in sociological and biological work have overwhelmingly emphasized the significance and shape of male behavior and far less female behavior which is surely at least as important. Stratification, sexual selection, and natural selection of what women do... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, 1. Epistemologies of Sex, 2. Gender Display, 3. The Biological Basis of Female Hierarchies, 4. Female Hierarchy: An Evolutionary Perspective, 5. Sex Differences in the Structure of Attention, 6. Gathering and the Hominid Adaptation, 7. Women in Politics, 8. Female Hierarchies in a Kibbutz Community

Biography

Lionel Tiger