High stakes and low risks: Women and aggression

Abstract

In this book, the author challenges the passive of role of women in evolutionary theory, and redresses the current bias in evolutionary writing. While elucidating the basics of evolutionary theory, the author proposes that women have forged their own strategic way forward, acting through their own forms of competition, rivalry, aggression, and sexuality. Confronting those feminist theories that discount it, the author argues that there is much to learn from evolutionary theory about the development of the female mind. Topics of discussion in this book also include biophobia and the study of sex differences, and women and parental investment, status, friendship, crime, and marriage.