feminism and evolutionary theory

Feminism & Evolutionary Theory
...this is a personal list of the authors and texts I have found useful and which adress the relationship between women's studies / feminism and evolutionary theory.

Books
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer 1999: Mother Nature. Natural Selection and the Female of the Species. London, Chatto + Windus.
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer 1988: The Woman that Never Evolved. Harvard University Press.
Campell, Anne 2002: A Mind of Her Own. The Evolutionary Psychology of Women.
Radcliffe Richards, Janet (2000): Human Nature After Darwin. A Philosophical Introduction. Routledge, London.
Zuk, Marlene 2002: Sexual Selections. What we can and can’t learn about sex from animals.
Trivers, Robert (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory. Selected Papers of Robert Trivers. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (especially 'Parental investment and sexual selection' and the preceding story of why it was written. Trivers has been acused of so many things (e.g. passive females, Gowaty 03) which really just aren't in this original article, so read it!)

Articles
På skandinaviska språk:
- Bleie, Tone (2003) ’Evas kamp for kunnskapens eple: betraktninger rundt feministisk forskning.' Kvinneforskning 1/03: 32-46.
- Rotkirch, Anna (2003) ‘Naturligtvis. Om essentialism, moderskap och evolutionsteori.’ Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 3/03
In English:
- Campbell, Anne 1999: 'Staying alive: Evolution, culture, and women’s intrasexual aggression.' Behavioral and Brain Sciences No.22.
- Bleie, Tone: Evolution, brains and the predicament of sex in human cognition. Sexualities, Evolution & Gender 5.3 December 2003, 149-189.
- Gowaty, P. Sexual Natures: How Feminism Changed Evolutionary Biology Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2003, vol.28, no.3, 901-922.
- Hopcroft, Rosemary L: The Evolution of Sex Discrimination. Sexualities, Evolution & Gender vol. 4, No. 1, 2002, 43-67.
- Hurley, Susan: Feminism and evolutionary theory – Can they be reconciled? http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/S.L.Hurley/papers/fep.pdf
- Grosz, Elizabeth (1999). Darwin and feminism: Preliminary investigations for a possible alliance. Australian Feminist Studies, 14 (29), 31-45.
- Wilson, Elizabeth 2002: Biologically Inspired Feminism: Response to Helen Keane and Marsha Rosengarten, ‘On the Biology of Sexed Subjects’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 17, No. 39, 2002: 283-285.
- Segerstråle, Ullica 1992: 'Sociobiology and Feminism: Enemies or Allies?' In van der Dennen (ed.) The Nature of the Sexes, 221-232.
- Smuts, Barbara 1992: Male aggression against women: an evolutionary perspective. Human Nature 3:1-44.
- Smuts, Barbara (1995) The Evolutionary Origins of Patriarchy, Human Nature 6(1): 1–32
- Vandermassen, Griet: Sexual Selection. A Tale of Male Bias and Feminist Denial. European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 9-26 (2004)

Edited books
Gowaty, P. A. 1997. (ed.) Feminism and Evolutionary Biology.
David M. Buss & Neil M. Malamuth (eds.) Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
van der Dennen, J.M.G. (ed.) The Nature of the Sexes. The sociobiology of sex differences and the 'battle of the sexes'. Groningen: Origin Press. 1992.
- these 3 books have uneven and today somewhat old contributions, but represent pioneering attempts from different perspectives

Related
(Darwin, sexual differences and female choice; not directly involving feminist aims or theory)
Kokko, Hanna, Robert Brooks, John M.MacNamara & Alasdair I. Houston: 'The sexual selection continuum.' Proc.R.soc.London B(2002) 269, 1221-1240. (combines the 'runaway' and 'good genes' hypotheses into a signle continuum of sexual selection)
Low, Bobbi S.: Women's lives therem here, then, now: a review of women's ecological and demographic constraints cross-culturally. Evolution and Human Behavior 26 (2005) 64-87. (also about everything else by Low!)
Schmitt, David P., Shackelford, Todd K., David M. Buss 2001: Are men really more oriented toward short-term mating than women? A critical review of theory and research. Psychology, Evolution and Gender Vol. 3, No. 3, 211-239.
Buss, D.M. (1996). Sexual conflict: Evolutionary insights into feminism and the "Battle of the Sexes." In ??
Gelman, Susan A. & Lawrence A. Hirschfeld 1999: How biological is essentialism? In Medin, Douglas L. & Scott Atran (1999) Folkbiology, 403-446. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts.
Geary, David C. 1998: Male, Female. The Evolution of Human Sex Differences. Washington, American Psychological Association.
Miller, Geoffrey 2001: The Mating Mind. How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature. Vintage, London.

Newspaper articles
Szalavitz, Maia: Eve Psych. (Sociobiology was supposed to be a boys’ club of gender stereotypes. How come so many of its star practitioners are women?) http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es301_master.html?alert or http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/evepsyh.mthl

Feminist critique of EP (in general or particular)
(a small sample)
Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W. (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions versus social roles. American Psychologist, 54, 408-423.
Elisabeth Lloyd & Evelyn Fox Keller 1992: Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. Harvard U Press.
Lloyd, E. 1993/1996: ‘Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality’, in Evelyn Fox Keller & Helene Longino (eds) Feminism and Science, Oxford: Oxford U Press.
Diekman, A. B., & Eagly, A. H. (2000). ‘Stereotypes as dynamic constructs: Women and men of the past, present, and future’. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1171-1181.

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