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Franse vertaling van het oorspronkelijk in het Engels verschenen werk van de gerenommeerde primatologe, feministe en overtuigd aanhanger van de sociobiologie, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. In haar studie stelt Hrdy de vrouwelijke primaten centraal. Ze beschrijft uitvoerig de ontelbare variaties in relaties tussen de seksen bij primaten en analyseert de mogelijke betekenissen ervan. Ze benadrukt dat observaties van mensapen niet als geïsoleerde gegevens mogen beschouwd worden, maar dat ze in hun particuliere ecologische context moeten geplaatst worden. Ze keert zich tegen de gangbare visie binnen de sociobiologie die mannetjes beschrijft als superieur - moediger, intelligenter, competitiever - aan vrouwtjes en die deze laatsten hoofdzakelijk een reproductieve rol toedicht. Op basis van talloze observaties is Hrdy tot de vaststelling gekomen dat het stereotiepe beeld van vrouwelijke primaten, als moeders die door mannetjes beschermd worden, volledig onjuist is. Integendeel, vrouwtjesapen vormen een groep waarbinnen meer diversiteit dan homogeniteit bestaat en bovendien zijn het bijzonder competitieve, sociaal actieve en seksueel assertieve individuen.

Primates --- Women --- Feminism --- Sociobiology --- Sex role --- Evolution --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Primates - Evolution --- Women - Evolution --- Biology --- Book --- Sex differences

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Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Mother and child. --- Motherhood --- Natural selection. --- Parental behavior in animals. --- Working mothers. --- Psychological aspects. --- History --- Body --- Psychology --- Sociology --- Book

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What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.

Primates --- Women --- Feminism. --- Sociobiology. --- Sex role. --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Biologism --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Evolution. --- Social aspects --- Emancipation --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles

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Age group sociology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of social care --- Educational sciences --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Children --- Motherhood --- Upbringing --- Care --- Biology --- Book

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