The Case of the Female Orgasm : : Bias in the Science of Evolution / / Elisabeth A. Lloyd.
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed...
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Lloyd, Elisabeth A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Case of the Female Orgasm : Bias in the Science of Evolution / Elisabeth A. Lloyd. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006] ©2006 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Basics of Female Orgasm -- CHAPTER 3 Pair-Bond Accounts of Female Orgasm -- CHAPTER 4 Further Evolutionary Accounts of Female Orgasm -- CHAPTER 5 The Byproduct Account -- CHAPTER 6 Warring Approaches to Adaptation -- CHAPTER 7 Sperm-Competition Accounts -- CHAPTER 8 Bias -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040304 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040304 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674040304/original |
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