Read Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy Online
Authors: Melvin Konner
Tags: #Science, #Life Sciences, #Evolution, #Social Science, #Women's Studies
defects in, 8, 209–10
hormones and development of, 29–30, 32, 36–37, 42
sex differences in, 5, 90–93, 209, 228–29
size of, 209, 229
Brazil, 236
bridewealth, 186
Briseis, 98, 162
Broad Spectrum Revolution, 148
Brooks, Alison, 143
Brown, Judith, 157–58, 211
Buck, Linda, 208
Buddhism, 166
Budongo Forest, 109
bullying, 107
Burma, 166
businesses, women-owned, 276, 288
Cai Hua, 154
California, 261, 269
California, University of, at Berkeley, 191
Caltech, 264–65
Cambodia, 271
Campbell, Anne, 213, 219–20
Canaan, 177–78
canines (teeth), 122
size of, 123, 124
cannibalism, sexual, 54–57
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), 253–56, 276
Care International, 251
Carroll, Lewis, 52
Cartagena, 267
Carter, Sue, 92
Carter Center, 251, 252
casques, 72–73
cassowaries, 72–73, 84, 85
castration, 64, 200
casual sex, 128, 217–24, 279
Catanese, Kathleen, 223
cave art, 88
cell division, 58
Central African Republic, 271
Chad, 254
Chagnon, Napoleon, 160
Charlemagne, 167
Chase, Ronald, 60
chattel slavery, 178–79
Chauvet, 88
Cheney, Dorothy, 108
chiefdoms, 168–69, 174, 175
child abuse, 260
childbearing, increase in, 159
childbirth, deaths in, 241–43
child care, 158
child marriage, 252, 253, 257
child mortality, 131
children, 299–300
child sexual abuse, 257, 260, 270
chimpanzees, 67, 93–94, 108–11, 112, 113, 116–18, 121, 122–23, 124, 303
competition between males in, 110
genome of, 112
male-on-female aggression among, 115
tool use of, 129
trading meat for sex in, 110–11
violence in, 109–10
Chimpanzees of Gombe, The
(Goodall), 109
China, 147, 151, 154, 157, 166, 168, 183, 239
one-child policy in, 240
chocolate, 258
Christianity, 167, 171, 180
polygyny in, 181
cingulate cortex, 117
Clark, Russell, 223–24
Clay, Zanna, 115–16
Clearwater Paper, 233
Clinton, Bill, 278
Clinton, Hillary, 211, 235–36
clitoris, 35, 89–90, 216, 239, 251
of lemurs, 97
cloacal exstrophy, 30–31
cloning, 58, 65
Clutton-Brock, Tim, 83, 183–84
CNBC, 217
CNN Freedom Project, 258
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 258
“Coca Colo” (blogger), 245
Code.org, 265
coercion, 91, 105–6
female avoidance of, 106–7
polygyny and, 128
Cohen, Mark, 149
college, 66
Collins, Susan, 282
colobus monkeys, 110
Colosseum, 156
“comfort women,” 179
Common Sense Media, 202
communal breeding, 185
Communist Manifesto
, 190
community, 159
competition, 10–11, 61–62
compliance, 86
concealed ovulation, 130
condoms, 244, 245, 247, 255–56
conduct disorder, 209
Confucianism, 166
congenital adrenal hyperplasia, 27
Congress, U.S., 281–83
Conley, Terri, 224
Conry-Murray, Clare, 202
contraception, 174, 191, 196
contraceptives, 241, 247
see also
birth control
convenience polyandry, 97, 100
cooperation, 62
cooperative breeding, 132, 185, 192
coral reef fish, 66
Cori, Gerty, 208
Cornell Medical Center, 35
corporate boards, 233
corpus callosum, 229
corruption, 270–71, 290–91, 292
Costa, Dora, 193
courtship feeding, 79–80
couvade
, 200
co-wives, 169, 180
craft guilds, 192
creativity, 211
Crews, David, 63
crowned lemur, 96
Crusades, 171
crying, 6
CSEC (commercial sexual exploitation of children), 258–61
cultural construction, 21–22
culture, 39–40
gender identity and, 28–29, 35, 41–43
Cummings, Molly, 90–91, 92
Cupid, 60
Curie, Marie, 191, 208
Cyprus, 147
Czech Republic, 262
Dahlberg, Frances, 129, 130
Dakin, Roslyn, 77–78
damselfishes, 66
Darfur, 271
Darwin, Charles, 47, 48, 50–51, 69–70, 71–72, 78
Darwin, Erasmus, 48–49, 51
Das Gupta, Monica, 241
Datoga (people), 169
daughters, 231–32
David, 165
Davies, Sally, 297
death penalty, 278
de Beauvoir, Simone, 7, 11
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
(de Gouges), 189
Decline of Males, The
(Tiger), 298
Defoe, Daniel, 178
de Gouges, Olympe, 189, 190
Delhi, 240, 247–48
Delilah, 196
democracy, 181, 291
growth of, 280–81
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 114
“Democratic Sex, The” (Weikart), 283
Despotism and Differential Reproduction
(Betzig), 167
DeVore, Irven, 103, 129
Devries, Karen, 248–49
Dias, Brian, 63
Dickemann, Mildred, 186
Dickens, Charles, 178
dietary range, 143
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), 116
Digby, Leslie, 96
dihydrotestosterone (DHT), 35–36
Dinah, 164
Dinka (people), 171
disease, 150, 151
dispersal, 51–52
divorce, 126, 181, 187, 300
DNA, 57
“Doctors for Daughters” campaign, 240
Dogon (people), 169
Dollar, David, 290
domestic violence, 65, 239, 248, 278
Dominican Republic, 34–35
Donaldson, Zoe, 92–93
dowries, 186
drawing tests, 28
Drea, Christine, 97
driven sexuality, 211–12, 229
driving, 273
drum dance, 137
dry sex, 245
Duckworth, Tammy, 274
Duke Energy, 233
DuPont, 232
Durjoy Nari Shanga, 255
Eagly, Alice, 278
Eberhard, William, 61
eclampsia, 242
Ecuador, 254
education, 191, 232, 234, 241, 249, 252, 253, 257, 274, 275, 291, 299
stereotype threat and, 262–66
of women, 12, 189–90, 193, 234, 238–39, 242, 254
eggs, 25–26, 58
egotism, 7
Egypt, 156, 168
Egypt, ancient, 177
El Abra pygmy swordtails, 91, 92
elephant seals, 84, 85, 104, 122
Elion, Gertrude, 208
Ellis, Bruce, 224
Ember, Carol, 203
EMILY’s List, 235–36
Emlen, Stephen, 74
Emma
(Austen), 188
emotional disorders, 209
emotions, 92–93, 116, 134, 139, 211, 212, 215, 229–30
of men, 6–7
of women, 8, 220, 237
empathy, 117, 230
Emperor penguins, 75
empires, 174
End of Men, The
(Rosin), 231
Enga (people), 154–55
engineering schools, 265
Enlightenment, 188
Ensler, Eve, 250
entrepreneurship, 276
environment, 28, 33, 38–40, 52, 78, 93, 110, 120, 206, 228, 264, 291, 292, 308
equal pay, 232
Eshed, Vered, 150–51
Eskimo (people), 142, 161
Estioko-Griffin, Agnes, 130
estrogen, 26, 63, 81–82, 213
estrus, 81, 110, 111, 113, 124, 125
Ethiopia, 242–43, 248
Ettner, Randi, 33–34
eukaryotes, 48
European Union, 239, 288
Eve, 163
Everett, Bethany, 225
evolution, 15, 17, 48, 50–54, 71, 81, 119, 239, 297, 301–2
future of, 300–301
of sex, 9–10
sexual selection in, 50, 69–70
Evolution of Human Sexuality, The
(Symons), 222
executions, 177, 178
“extra-pair” copulations, 100
“Eye for an Eyespot” (Dakin and Montgomerie), 77–78
Facebook, 304
falcons, 87
family planning, 12, 191, 246–47
farming, 159
fathers, 35, 47, 57, 65, 80, 97, 100–102, 107, 126–27, 128, 139, 152–54, 157, 167, 179, 183–88, 201, 203–4, 206, 210, 284, 301
fatherhood, 92–94, 123
fathers, contributions of, 73–74, 86–88, 102, 131–32, 143, 289, 300–301
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 277
Fedigan, Linda Marie, 108
Feinberg, Kenneth, 286
Feinstein, Dianne, 283
Feldman-Jacobs, Charlotte, 240
female choice, 9–10, 79, 81–82, 86, 89, 90–91, 92, 96, 100, 115, 182
among bonobos, 113–14
among chimps, 111
polygyny and, 128
female dominance, 15, 16, 66–67, 72–74, 76, 85–90, 95–97, 107, 113, 115, 213, 301
female genital cutting (FGC), 239, 251–53
femaleness, 25
“Female Style of Corporate Leadership?, A” (Matsa and Miller), 287–88
feminism, 4, 13, 15-16, 108, 169, 218
second-wave, 232
feminist anthropology, 141
Feminomics
blog, 245
Feniger, Yariv, 264
Ferguson, Brian, 146
Fernández, Raquel, 192–93
fertility, 157, 184, 281, 299
fidelity, 92, 126
Fifteenth Amendment, 190
Fifty Shades of Grey
, 226
financial corruption, 8, 270–92
First Sex, The
(Fisher), 305
Fisher, Helen, 305
Fisher, Ronald, 78
5-alpha reductase, 34–36
flatworms, 61
Folkman, Joe, 286
Forbes
, 276
Fossey, Dian, 108
Foucault, Michel, 21–22
Fourteenth Amendment, 190
Fox, ElizaBeth, 106–7
France, 268
Franklin, Benjamin, 49
Franklin, Shirley, 260
fraternal twins, 38–39
fraud, 290
Free2Work, 258
Free the Slaves, 258
free will, 33–34
French Revolution, 188–89
Freud, Sigmund, 200
frogs, 83–84
frontal lobe, 117, 229
Frontiers in Endocrinology
, 228
Fruth, Barbara, 114–15
Fry, Douglas, 161
Funk, Patricia, 289
FWBs (friends with benefits), 221
Gaca, Kathy, 170
Galdikas, Biruté, 108
Gandhi, Indira, 7, 211, 236
gang rapes, 179, 227, 247–49
Gannett Company, 233
Garcia, Justin, 221
Garcia-Falgueras, Alicia, 34
gardening, 49
garden snails, 59–60, 66
Gates, Bill, 245–46
Gates, Melinda, 245–46, 252
Gayle, Helene, 253, 276
gay males, 21, 157, 205–6, 225, 227, 229, 298, 300
gays, 28, 36–37, 235, 278–79, 293
Gearhart, John, 30
gender:
as continuum, 22–24
as culturally constructed, 21–22
development of, 24, 25–26
“Gender Differences in Receptivity to Sexual Offers” (Clark and Hatfield), 223–24
gender equality, 120, 130, 138, 238
in decision making, 239
gender gap, in politics, 278–79
gender identity, 14, 30, 31–33, 45, 200–201, 212–13, 228
androgens and, 29–31
and culture, 28–29, 35, 41–43
and early reassignment surgery, 31
5-alpha reductase and, 34–36
as formed through experience, 28
parental stereotyping and, 201
self-segregation and, 204–5
and sexual orientation, 205–6
gender reassignment surgery, 31, 33–34
gender socialization, 200
gender typing, 201–2
gene expression, 92–94, 117
General Dynamics, 232–33
General Motors, 232, 284–86
Genes (genetic), 3, 9, 26–27, 38–40, 42, 45–48, 50, 52–53, 57–58, 61–63, 64–66, 71, 77, 84, 87, 90–94, 100, 110, 112, 117, 123–24, 128, 147, 171–72, 176, 205, 209–10, 228, 297, 300
gene swaps, 58
genetic defects, age of father and, 210
Genghis Khan, 171–72
genitalia, ambiguous, 24, 27–28
genocide, 271–72
genome, 58, 87, 112–13, 117
George III, King of England, 48, 49
Georgia, 234–35, 261
Georgia Care Connection, 260
Georgia State University Center for School Safety, 259
Georgia Tech, 264–65
Germany, 236
germs, 9, 53–54, 245, 247
Ghana, 152
gibbons, 122–23
Gibson, Nicole, 105
Gildersleeve, Kelly, 124–25, 128–29
Gillard, Julia, 237
Gilles, Kate, 240
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 282, 283
Girls Coming to Tech!
(Bix), 264–65
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 256
global warming, 148
Göbekli Tepe, 149
golden hamsters, 85
Golding, William, 213
Golombok, Susan, 206
Gombe Stream Reserve, 108
Gomes, Cristina, 110–11
Gomez, Doris, 97
Goodall, Jane, 108–9
gorillas, 104, 122–23
gossip, 138
governments, 155
Grameen Bank, 255
grandmothers, 131–32
gray mouse lemur, 97–98, 100
great ape, 121–22
see also
apes,
and specific apes
Great Britain, 170, 171, 178, 190, 236–37
homicide rate in, 43
Great Recession of 2008, 275, 288
Greece, ancient, 60, 98, 147, 162–63, 180–85, 192, 196
monogamy in, 187
Greider, Carol, 208
Grimaldi, 161
grooming, 111
group identity bias, 215
“groupthink,” 216
guevedoce
(testicles-at-twelve), 35
gun control, 278
Hadza (people), 130, 131, 132, 161
The Hague, 271
Halim, May Ling, 201
Hämäläinen, Anni, 82
Hames, Raymond, 126
Hamm, Mia, 274
Hammond, Dorothy, 134
“handicap principle,” 78
Harris, Marvin, 147