The war of the sexes: how conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from prehistory to the present
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Beteilige Person: Seabright, Paul (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press c2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Sex and salesmanship -- Seduction and the emotions -- Social primates -- Testing for talent -- What do women want? -- Coalitions of the willing -- The scarcity of charm -- The tender war
As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. <
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ISBN:0691133018
1280494433
1400841607
9780691133010
9781280494437
9781400841608