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Author : Giuseppe Benagiano,Gian Carlo Di Renzo,Ermelando V. Cosmi
Publisher : International Study of Man
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000056809829
Author : Donald Symons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979-08-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199878475
Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Author : Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford,Todd K. Shackelford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781493903146
This volume in the Springer Series in Evolutionary Psychology presents a state of the art view of the topic of sexuality and sexual behavior drawing on theoretical constructs and research of noted individuals in the field. Comprehensive and multi-disciplinary, this book seeks to provide a broad overview without sacrificing the complexity of a multi-faceted approach. The book is framed by introductory and closing sections that provide a context for the range of ideas contained within. Ample space is provided in designated sections that focus on key areas of sexuality from both male and female perspectives and that include information from primate studies. This volume can serve as a graduate text in sexual behavior in evolutionary terms and as a guide for further research.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309132978
It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.
Author : Christopher Ryan,Cacilda Jetha
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781925938678
The 10th-anniversary edition of the book that radical re-evaluates the origins and nature of human sexuality. Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science — as well as religious and cultural institutions — has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity. In this groundbreaking book, however, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. With intelligence and humour, Ryan and Jethá explain how our promiscuous past haunts our contemporary struggles. They explore why many people find long-term fidelity so difficult; why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens; why homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic; and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality. Shocking, enlightening, and ultimately inspiring, Sex at Dawn offers a revolutionary understanding of why we live and love as we do.
Author : Timothy Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : NWU:35556036684702
Megaliths, long barrows, figurines, burials, rock art and hillside figures all evoke ancient beliefs about male and female sexuality which, Taylor argues, lay at the heart of prehistoric culture and religion. This unique study of human sexual culture covers four million years and is solidly based on human remains and artefacts. Beginning with an assessment of what bare human bones can tell us about the sexual behaviour of our ancestors, Taylor explores archaeological, genetic and cultural evidence from Britain and across the world to ask whether attitudes to sex really have changed. This is also a history of past and present schools of thought about the history of sex and so is full of extracts from anthropological and ethnological surveys in which strange ideas abound.
Author : Joan Cadden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521483786
This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465013074
To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it to human males by the striking color changes, smells, and sounds used by other female mammals.Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest ancestor, the apes? Why does the human female, virtually alone among mammals go through menopause? Why does the human male stand out as one of the few mammals to stay (often or usually) with the female he impregnates, to help raise the children that he sired? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large?There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond—renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author—to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780679724698
Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Author : Alex Mills
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781487593377
This text explains the biological aspects of human sex by using direct and intriguing comparisons with the many variations in sexual systems among non-human organisms.
Author : Jonathan Ned Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226307626
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term “heterosexuality” referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture. “Lively and provocative.”—Carol Tavris, New York Times Book Review “A valuable primer . . . misses no significant twists in sexual politics.”—Gary Indiana, Village Voice Literary Supplement “One of the most important—if not outright subversive—works to emerge from gay and lesbian studies in years.”—Mark Thompson, The Advocate
Author : Douglas T Kenrick
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465023424
"Kenrick writes like a dream." -- Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University; author of A Primate's Memoir and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers What do sex and murder have to do with the meaning of life? Everything. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick exposes the selfish animalistic underside of human nature, and shows how it is intimately connected to our greatest and most selfless achievements. Masterfully integrating cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and complexity theory, this intriguing book paints a comprehensive picture of the principles that govern our lives. As Kenrick divulges, beneath our civilized veneer, human beings are a lot like howling hyenas and barking baboons, with heads full of homicidal tendencies and sexual fantasies. But, in his view, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors -- such as inclinations to one-night stands, racial prejudices, and conspicuous consumption -- ultimately manifest what he calls "Deep Rationality.&" Although our heads are full of simple selfish biases that evolved to help our ancestors survive, modern human beings are anything but simple and selfish cavemen. Kenrick argues that simple and selfish mental mechanisms we inherited from our ancestors ultimately give rise to the multifaceted social lives that we humans lead today, and to the most positive features of humanity, including generosity, artistic creativity, love, and familial bonds. And out of those simple mechanisms emerge all the complexities of society, including international conflicts and global economic markets. By exploring the nuance of social psychology and the surprising results of his own research, Kenrick offers a detailed picture of what makes us caring, creative, and complex -- that is, fully human. Illuminated with stories from Kenrick's own colorful experiences -- from his criminally inclined shantytown Irish relatives, his own multiple high school expulsions, broken marriages, and homicidal fantasies, to his eventual success as an evolutionary psychologist and loving father of two boys separated by 26 years -- this book is an exploration of our mental biases and failures, and our mind's great successes. Idiosyncratic, controversial, and fascinating, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life uncovers the pitfalls and promise of our biological inheritance.
Author : Robert Martin
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465030156
A primatologist explores the mystery of the origins of human reproduction, explaining that understanding the evolutionary past can provide insight into what worked, what didn't, and what it all means for the future of mankind.
Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff,Jeffrey Kripal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047443582
The history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality, but this connection has never been explored in detail from a critical scholarly perspective. Bringing together an impressive array of top-level specialists, this volume reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679724513
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.