Sexual coercion in primates and humans : an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females
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Sexual coercion in primates and humans : an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females
Harvard University Press, 2009
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Conflict between males and females over reproduction is ubiquitous in nature due to fundamental differences between the sexes in reproductive rates and investment in offspring. In only a few species, however, do males strategically employ violence to control female sexuality. Why are so many of these primates? Why are females routinely abused in some species, but never in others? And can the study of such unpleasant behavior by our closest relatives help us to understand the evolution of men's violence against women?
In the first systematic attempt to assess and understand primate male aggression as an expression of sexual conflict, the contributors to this volume consider coercion in direct and indirect forms: direct, in overcoming female resistance to mating; indirect, in decreasing the chance the female will mate with other males. The book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate the form of sexual coercion in a range of species-including all of the great apes and humans-and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Theory * Male Aggression and Sexual Coercion of Females in Primates Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham * Evolution of Sexual Coercion with Respect to Sexual Selection and Sexual Conflict Theory Jana J. Watson-Capps * Inter-Sexual Conflict in Primates: Infanticide, Paternity Allocation, and the Role of Coercion Parry Clarke, Gauri Pradhan and Carel van Schaik Sexual Coercion and Mate Guarding in Non-Human Primates * Orangutans: Sexual Coercion Without Sexual Violence Cheryl Knott * Male Aggression Against Females in Mountain Gorillas: Courtship or Coercion? Martha Robbins * The Causes and Consequences of Male Aggression Directed at Female Chacma Baboons Dawn M. Kitchen, Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, Dorothy L. Cheney, Catherine Crockford, Anne L. Engh, Julia Fischer, Robert M. Seyfarth and Roman M. Wittig * Female-Directed Aggression and Social Control in Spider Monkeys Andres Link, Anthony Di Fiore and Stephanie N. Spehar * Male Aggression Against Females and Sexual Coercion in Chimpanzees Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham * Sexual Coercion in Dolphin Consortships: a Comparison with Chimpanzees Richard C. Connor and Nicole L. Vollmer * Male Aggression toward Females in Hamadryas Baboons: Conditioning, Coercion, and Control Larissa Swedell and Amy Schreier Sexual Coercion and Mate Guarding in Humans * Coercive Violence by Human Males Against Their Female Partners Margo Wilson and Martin Daly * The Political Significance of Gender Violence Lars Rodseth and Shannon Novak * Intimate Wounds: Cranio-Facial Trauma in Women and Female Chimpanzees Shannon Novak and Mallorie Hatch * Human Rape: Revising Evolutionary Perspectives Melissa Emery Thompson Female Counterstrategies *"Friendship" with Males: A Female Counterstrategy to Infanticide in Chacma Baboons of the Okavango Delta Ryne Palombit * The Absence of Sexual Coercion in Bonobos Tommaso Paoli * Sexual Coercion, Patriarchal Violence and Law Diane L. Rosenfeld Summary and Conclusions * Sexual Coercion in Humans and Other Primates: The Road Ahead Richard W. Wrangham and Martin N. Muller * List of Contributors * Index
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