The title of this special issue directly reveals its goal, which was to provide a forum for research that examines women outside the viewpoint commonly seen within evolutionary perspectives of human behavior.
To accomplish this aim, authors were presented with the task of reporting on research that considers women as active agents, discuss work that questions past assumptions and how they influence the field, and/or present ideas or findings that detail the ways in which the field itself has limited a fuller exploration of women.
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Table of contents
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Introduction
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Beyond the Ingénue: Current Evolutionary Perspectives of Women
Maryanne L. Fisher and Catherine Bourgeois
Articles
- When Is the Breast Best? Infant Feeding as a Domain of Intrasexual Competition
Anthony A. Volk and Prarthana Franklin - He Looks “Easy” and She’s Not Into It: Sexual Exploitation Cues and Attraction
Lora Adair, Brett Andersen, and Taylor Hinton - Women as Active Agents: Female Perpetrators of Sexual Harassment and Domestic Abuse
Melanie Dawn Douglass, Sofia D’Aguanno, and Sophie Jones - Women’s Agency in Jean M. Auel’s Earth’s Children: An Evolutionary Analysis
Judith P. Saunders - The Nuanced Psychology of The Handmaid’s Tale: Commentary on Power, Feminism, and the Patriarchy From Four Feminist Evolutionary Psychologists
Jessica L. Calvi, Ashley M. Rankin, Nikki Clauss, and Jennifer Byrd-Craven - Who Creates Warrior Women? An Investigation of the Warrior Characteristics of Fictional Female Heroes Based on the Sex of the Author
Victoria Ingalls - Antoinette Brown Blackwell — The Mother of Asymmetric Parental Investment Theory
Elisabeth Oberzaucher - More Than Just a Pretty Face: The Overlooked Contributions of Women in Evolutionary Psychology Textbooks
Rebecca L. Burch
