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Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray / Helen Fisher.

By: Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016Edition: Completely revised and updated editionDescription: xi, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393285222 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.3 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ728 .F454 2016
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ728 .F454 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001361053

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.

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