Gender, genes and genetics: From Darwin to the human genome

Culture in Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 31-42

  Segal, Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075661599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203361047-9     Document Type: Chapter

References (59)

1. Archer, A. (1996) ‘Sex differences in social behavior: Are the social role and evolutionary explanations compatible?’, American Psychologist 51(9):909-17.
2. Bagemihl, B. (1999) Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, New York: St Martin’ s Press.
3. Birke, L. and Silverton, J. (eds) (1984) More Than the Parts: Biology and Politics, London: Pluto Press.
4. Bleier, R. (1984) Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and its Views of Women, Oxford: Pergamon Press.
5. Brandon, R. (1990) Adaptation and Environment, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
6. Buss, D. (1994) The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, London: HarperCollins.
7. Buss, D. (1995) ‘Evolutionary psychology: A new paradigm for social science’, Psychological Inquiry 6:1-30.
8. Buss, D., Haselton, M., Shackelford, T., Bleske, A. and Wakefield, J. (1998) ‘Apatations, exaptions, and spandrels’, American Psychologist 53(5):533-48.
9. Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, London: Routledge.
10. Campbell, A. (1999) ‘Staying alive: Evolution, culture, and women’s intrasexual aggression’, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 22:203-52.
11. Chomsky, N. (1996) Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order, London: Pluto Press.
12. Daly, M. and Wilson, M. (1988) Homicide, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
13. Darwin, C. (1968) [1859] The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
14. Dawkins, R. (1976) The Selfish Gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Dawkins, R. (1998) Unweaving the Rainbow, London: Penguin.
16. Dawkins, R. and Krebs, J.R. (1979) ‘Arms races between and within species’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Bulletin 295:489-511.
17. Demos (1996) ‘Matters of life and death: The world view from evolutionary psychology’, Demos Quarterly 10.
18. Dunant, S. and Porter, R. (eds) (1996) The Age of Anxiety, London: Virago.
19. Einon, D. (1998)‘How many children can one man have?’, Evolution and Human Behavior 19: 413-26.
20. Eldredge, N. (1995) Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory, New York: Wiley.
21. Fausto-Sterling, A. (1992) ‘Sex and the single brain’, in Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, New York: Basic Books.
22. Gergen, M. and Davis, S. (eds) (1997) Towards a New Psychology of Gender, London: Routledge.
23. Gould, S.J. (1996) Life’s Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, London: Jonathan Cape.
24. HMSO (1998) Why Mothers Die: The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, London: HMSO.
25. Hubbard, R. (ed.) (1982) Biological Woman: The Convenient Myth, Boston, MA: Shenkman.
26. Hubbard, R. and Wald, E. (1993) Exploding the Gene Myth, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
27. Hughes, C. (1998) ‘The Guardian profile, Richard Dawkins: The man who knows the meaning of life’, The Guardian Saturday Review, 3 October: 7.
28. Jones, S. (1997) ‘Biology and bile’, Prospect, March: 63.
29. Keller, E.F. (1992) ‘Nature, nurture and the Human Genome Project’, in D.J.Kevles and L.Hood (eds) The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
30. Kevles, D. (1985) In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, New York: Alfred Knopf.
31. Kevles, D. (1992) ‘Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the Human Genome’, in D.J.Kevles and L.Hood (eds) The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
32. Kevles, D.J. and Hood, L. (eds) (1992) The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
33. Koshland, D. (1989) ‘Sequences and consequences of the Human Genome’, Science 146: 187-90.
34. Lauman, E.O., Gagnon, J.H., Michael, R.T. and Michaels, S. (1994) The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
35. Lewontin, R. (1993) The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology, London: Penguin.
36. Lewontin, R. (1998) ‘Survival of the nicest?’, New York Review of Books, 22 October: 60-1.
37. Looren de Jong, H. and Van Der Steen, W.J. (1998) ‘Biological thinking in evolutionary psychology: Rockbottom or quicksand?’, Philosophical Psychology 11(2):196.
38. Lyotard, J.-F. (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
39. McIntosh, S. and Ehrenreich, B. (1997) ‘The new creationism’, The Nation, 9 June: 11-16.
40. Martin, E. (1992) ‘Body narratives, body boundaries’, in L.Grossberg, C.Nelson and P.Treichler (eds) Cultural Studies, London: Routledge.
41. Montague, A. (ed.) (1980) Sociobiology Examined, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
42. Plomin, R. (1994) Genetics and Experience: The Interplay between Nature and Nurture: Individual Differences and Development Series, Volume 6, London: Sage.
43. Plotkin, H. (1997) Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology, London: Penguin.
44. Richardson, R.C. (1996) The prospects for an evolutionary psychology: Human language and human reasoning’, Minds and Machines 6:541-77.
45. Rose, S. (ed.) (1982) Against Biological Determinism, London: Allison & Busby.
46. Rose, S. (ed.) (1997) Lifelines, London: Penguin.
47. Ross, A. (1994) The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature’s Debt to Society, London: Verso.
48. Sahlins, M. (1977) The Use and Abuse of Biology, London: Tavistock.
49. Samuels, A. (1993) The Political Psyche, London: Routledge.
50. Segal, L. (1999) Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics, Cambridge: Polity Press.
51. Sperling, S. and Beyene, Y. (1997) ‘A pound of biology and a pinch of culture or a pinch of biology and a pound of culture?’, in L.Hager (ed.) Women in Human Evolution, London: Routledge.
52. Tooby, J. and Cosmides, L. (1992) ‘The psychological foundations of culture’, in J.Barkow, L.Cosmides and J.Tooby (eds) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press.
53. Trivers, R. (1974) ‘Parent-offspring conflict’, American Zoologist 14.
54. Wellings, K., Field, J., Johnson, A. and Wadsworth, J. (1994) Sexual Behaviour in Britain: The National Survey of Attitudes and Lifestyles, London: Penguin.
55. Wilson, E.O. (1975) Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
56. Wilson, E.O. (1978) On Human Nature, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
57. Wright, R. (1994) ‘Feminists meet Mr. Darwin’, The New Republic, 28 November: 3-6.
58. Yoxen, E. (1984) ‘Constructing genetic disease’, in T.Duster and K.Garett (eds) Cultural Perspectives in Biological Knowledge, Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
59. Zebrowitz, L. (1997) Reading Faces: Window to the Soul, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.