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Eve's seed : biology, the sexes, and the course of history / Robert S. McElvaine.

By: Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001.Description: viii, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0071355286
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3/09 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1075 .M386 2001
Contents:
Contents: A Man's World? -- 90 Percent Nature: 90 Percent Nurture? -- The Way We Were (and Are) -- Men Are from New York: Women Are from Philadelphia -- Paradise Lost -- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Man Devalued -- Going to Seed -- "All Power and Glory Are Yours, Almighty Father" -- "No Mother Gave Me Birth" -- She Is Risen - And Fallen -- Human Liberation Is Women's Liberation -- No Woman Is an Island -- "I Can't Be Satisfied" -- Verbal Mounting -- "I Am Notawoman: Hear Me Roar" -- The "Masculine"/Marketplace Mystique -- "I've Got to Be a Macho Man" -- Fears of Our Fathers, Living Still.
Summary: Publisher description: In this provocative reinterpretation of the human experience, noted historian Robert S. McElvaine bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and history to create a new approach he terms "biohistory." Here for the first time he presents a startlingly fresh thesis: misperceptions about sexual difference and procreative power have, along with misleading sexual metaphors, been the major forces in history. In a bold departure from the methods of conventional history, McElvaine draws on a wide range of sources, from biology, anthropology, archaeology, mythology, religion, and popular culture, to show how the interplay between our evolutionary heritage and changing environments has shaped the course of history, from hunter-gatherers to the contemporary world. Doubly controversial for its method and its contention that "prehistoric" developments devalued men, subordinated women and continue to misshape our lives, Eve;s Seed is sure to engender debate.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-441) and index.

Contents: A Man's World? -- 90 Percent Nature: 90 Percent Nurture? -- The Way We Were (and Are) -- Men Are from New York: Women Are from Philadelphia -- Paradise Lost -- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Man Devalued -- Going to Seed -- "All Power and Glory Are Yours, Almighty Father" -- "No Mother Gave Me Birth" -- She Is Risen - And Fallen -- Human Liberation Is Women's Liberation -- No Woman Is an Island -- "I Can't Be Satisfied" -- Verbal Mounting -- "I Am Notawoman: Hear Me Roar" -- The "Masculine"/Marketplace Mystique -- "I've Got to Be a Macho Man" -- Fears of Our Fathers, Living Still.

Publisher description: In this provocative reinterpretation of the human experience, noted historian Robert S. McElvaine bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and history to create a new approach he terms "biohistory." Here for the first time he presents a startlingly fresh thesis: misperceptions about sexual difference and procreative power have, along with misleading sexual metaphors, been the major forces in history. In a bold departure from the methods of conventional history, McElvaine draws on a wide range of sources, from biology, anthropology, archaeology, mythology, religion, and popular culture, to show how the interplay between our evolutionary heritage and changing environments has shaped the course of history, from hunter-gatherers to the contemporary world. Doubly controversial for its method and its contention that "prehistoric" developments devalued men, subordinated women and continue to misshape our lives, Eve;s Seed is sure to engender debate.

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