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Sto caricando le informazioni... Istinto materno (1999)di Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was working a temporary job at the Cornell Bookstore during their textbook rush when I saw this book. During quiet times I would look through whatever text book caught my interest. This one got me to buy a copy. Hrdy set out to explain how women have always worked in various ways to make sure that their children not only survive, but thrive and rise within their social group. As a consequence of this research, she also clearly shows how mammals, including humans, sometimes ruthlessly, decide if an offspring is viable or not and the way they end thier life. This is a clear view of the evolution of motherhood, looking at human female physiology , non-human mammal physiology, history, economics, social evolution and more. Fascinating. ( ) I was finally motivated to pull this weighty tome down off of the shelf after an intriguing review by my sister of Hrdy's most recent work: Mothers and Others. An anthropologist, Hrdy uses human history, observations of our closest evolutionary relatives, and even social insects to examine what is really the true nature of motherhood. As a feminist, she is perhaps not surprised to find that much of what we have traditionally viewed as natural maternal behavior is in fact wishful thinking. I found this book incredibly impressive and profoundly influential. Many times I've found both Andrew and I reciting anecdotes and arguments from this book in discussions on gender and parenting. (There were quite a number of sections I just had to read aloud to Andrew.) Though I didn't always agree with her every point, I look forward to reading other work by Hrdy, and will continue to recommend her far and wide. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Mother Nature presents a radical new way of understanding how mothers act and why, and how this new understanding is changing the way scientists think about how evolution works."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on anthropology, history, literature, developmental psychology, and animal behavior, Sarah Hrdy examines the distinct biological and genetic elements that constitute maternal instinct. She strips away the biases implicit in conventional stereotypes of female nature to give us very different and provocative perspectives on maternal ambivalence, the links between maternity and ambition, mother love and sexual love, and she explains why age-old tensions between the sexes persist and are being played out today in efforts to control women's reproductive choices."--BOOK JACKET. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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