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Title Sexual coercion in primates and humans : an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females / edited by Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  156.5 Se92 2009    ---  Available
Description ix, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual conflict theory / Jana J. Watson-Capps -- Intersexual conflict in primates : infanticide, paternity allocation, and the role of coercion / Parry Clarke, Gauri Pradhan, and Carel van Schaik -- Orangutans : sexual coercion without sexual violence / Cheryl D. Knott -- Male aggression against females in mountain gorillas : courtship or coercion? / Martha M. Robbins -- The causes and consequences of male aggression directed at female chacma baboons / Dawn M. Kitchen ... [et al.] -- Female-directed aggression and social control in spider monkeys / Andres Link, Anthony Di Fiore, and Stephanie N. Spehar -- Male aggression against females and sexual coercion in chimpanzees / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Sexual coercion in dolphin consortships : a comparison with chimpanzees / Richard C. Connor and Nicole L. Vollmer -- Male aggression toward females in hamadryas baboons : conditioning, coercion, and control / Larissa Swedell and Amy Schreier -- Coercive violence by human males against their female partners / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- The political significance of gender violence / Lars Rodseth and Shannon A. Novak -- Intimate wounds : craniofacial trauma in women and female chimpanzees / Shannon A. Novak and Mallorie A. Hatch -- Human rape : revising evolutionary perspectives / Melissa Emery Thompson -- "Friendship" with males : a female counterstrategy to infanticide in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta / Ryne Palombit -- The absence of sexual coercion in bonobos / Tommaso Paoli -- Sexual coercion, patriarchal violence, and law / Diane L. Rosenfeld -- Sexual coercion in humans and other primates : the road ahead / Richard W. Wrangham and Martin N. Muller.
Subject Primates -- Sexual behavior.
Aggressive behavior in animals.
Rape -- Psychological aspects.
Sexual Behavior, Animal.
Aggression.
Coercion.
Evolution.
Social Dominance.
Added Author Muller, Martin N., 1971-
Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-
ISBN 9780674033245 (alk. paper)
0674033248 (alk. paper)
Standard No. BWX R4786216
CDX 8857737
IG# 9780674033245
NLM 101508989

 
    
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