Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray /
Fisher, Helen E.,
Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray / Helen Fisher. - Completely revised and updated edition. - xi, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; cm
Revised edition of the author's Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Games people play courting -- Why him? why her? -- The drive to love and who we choose -- Is monogamy natural? -- Of human bonding-- and cheating -- Why adultery? -- The nature of philandering -- Blueprint for divorce -- The three to four-year itch -- "When wild in woods the noble savage ran" -- Life in the trees -- Out of eden -- On the origin of monogamy and desertion -- The tyranny of love -- Evolution of attachment and love addictions -- Dressed to impress -- Nature's lures for seduction -- Men and women are like two feet-- they need each other to get ahead -- Gender differences in mind -- Women, men, and power -- The nature of sexual politics -- Almost human -- Genesis of kinship and the teenager -- The first affluent society -- That short but imperious word "ought" -- Fickle passion -- Romance in yesteryears -- "Till death do us part" -- Birth of sexual double standards -- Future sex -- Forward to the past -- Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780393285222 (hardcover)
2015037510
Marriage.
Adultery.
Divorce.
Sex customs.
HQ728 / .F454 2016
302.3
Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray / Helen Fisher. - Completely revised and updated edition. - xi, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; cm
Revised edition of the author's Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Games people play courting -- Why him? why her? -- The drive to love and who we choose -- Is monogamy natural? -- Of human bonding-- and cheating -- Why adultery? -- The nature of philandering -- Blueprint for divorce -- The three to four-year itch -- "When wild in woods the noble savage ran" -- Life in the trees -- Out of eden -- On the origin of monogamy and desertion -- The tyranny of love -- Evolution of attachment and love addictions -- Dressed to impress -- Nature's lures for seduction -- Men and women are like two feet-- they need each other to get ahead -- Gender differences in mind -- Women, men, and power -- The nature of sexual politics -- Almost human -- Genesis of kinship and the teenager -- The first affluent society -- That short but imperious word "ought" -- Fickle passion -- Romance in yesteryears -- "Till death do us part" -- Birth of sexual double standards -- Future sex -- Forward to the past -- Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780393285222 (hardcover)
2015037510
Marriage.
Adultery.
Divorce.
Sex customs.
HQ728 / .F454 2016
302.3