About this title: Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2002-06-03
ISBN-13:9780520219748ISBN:0520219740
Description: Text is clean, binding firm. in dustcover in good condition. jacket. 100% guaranteed. No hassle return policy. Full Number Line. read more
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread paperback with light to moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the covers and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 8-1-03
ISBN-13:9780520240759ISBN:0520240758
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread paperback with light to moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the covers and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! ! 0.8 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780520219748ISBN:0520219740
Description: Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good. 239 pp., index, bibliography. The author suggests that studying the lives of nonhumans should be motivated not by the political lessons they provide, but rather for the pleasure of knowing nature. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: hard
Publisher: Univ. of California, Berkeley
Date Published: c2002
ISBN-13:9780520219748ISBN:0520219740
Description: Lee Friedman dj. very good+, vg lightly worn dj, silver-stamped black cloth, tight. 239 pgs, ISBN: 0-520-21974-0. Name FEP, else clean. Indexed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780520219748ISBN:0520219740
Description: 520219740. BRAND NEW Brand New; 0.9 x 9.5 x 6.4 Inches; 238 pages; Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is. read more
"What I learned from this book is best summed up by this paragraph from its conclusion:
There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.
It's a wonderful, readable book that I think everyone should read before we let them loose on all the animal behavior (especially sexual behavior) articles in the paper."
"A very interesting book about gender biases in humans, and how they affect scientific studies on animal behavior, as well as the reverse - the tendency to see things that occur in nature, particularly in cute, fuzzy animals, and assume that if it's natural for animals, it's natural for us. I learned some things that were a bit disconcerting: for example, that women were not used in medical studies until relatively recently because their cycles were assumed to cause confusing side effects, and that no scientist thought to study why menstruation would in evolve until the 1990s. At times the book is redundant in driving its point home, but otherwise it is very well written and interesting."
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