FEPS

This reference list is a work in progress – if you have references you would like to add, please contact Maryanne Fisher. Please note also that the goal is to provide some resources that will act as a springboard for your literature searches, rather than a complete list of all literature that deals with “feminist evolutionary issues” (broadly conceived).

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Baenninger, M. A., Baenninger, R., & Houle, D. (1993). Attractiveness, attentiveness, and perceived male shortage: Their influence on perceptions of other females. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 293-304.

Bellis, M. A., & Baker, R. R. (1990). Do females promote sperm competition? Data for humans. Animal Behaviour, 40, 997-999

Benenson, J. (1999). Females’ desire for status cannot be measured using male definitions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 216-217.

Benenson, J. (2009). Dominating versus eliminating the competition: Sex differences in human intrasexual aggression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 3, 268-269.

Benenson, J., Hodgson, L., Heath, S., and Welch, P. (2008). Human sexual differences in the use of social ostracism as a competitive tactic. International Journal of Primatology, 29, 1019-1035.

Berglund, A., Magnhagen, C., Bisazza, A., König, B., & Huntingford, F. (1993). Female-female competition over reproduction. Behavioural Ecology, 4, 184-187.

Brown Blackwell, A. (1875). The sexes throughout nature. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Burbank, V. K. (1987). Female aggression in cross-cultural perspective. Behavior Science Research, 21, 70-100.

Burbank, V. K. (1994). Fighting women: Anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Buss, D. M., & Malamuth, N. (1996). Sex, power, conflict: Evolutionary and feminist perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Buss, D. & Schmitt, D. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and feminism. Sex Roles, 64, 768-787.

Campbell, A. (1986). Self-reporting of fighting by females. British Journal of Criminology, 26, 28-46.

Campbell, A. (1995). A few good men: Evolutionary psychology and female adolescent aggression. Ethology and Sociobiology, 16, 99-123.

Campbell, A. (1999). Staying alive: Evolution, culture, and women’s intrasexual aggression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 203-252.

Campbell, A. (2002). A mind of her own: The evolutionary psychology of women. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Campbell, A. (2004). Female competition: Causes, constraints, content, and contexts. Journal of Sex Research, 41, 1, 16-26.

Campbell, A. (2006). Sex differences and indirect aggression: What are the psychological mediators? Aggression and Violent Behavior, 11, 237-264.

Campbell, A. (2005). Feminism and evolutionary psychology. In J. Barkow (Ed.), Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (pp.63-100). New York: Oxford University Press.

Campbell, A., Muncer, S., & Bibel, D. (2001). Women and crime: An evolutionary approach. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 6, 481- 497.

Cashdan, E. (1998). Are men more competitive than women? British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 213-229.

Cashdan, E. (1998). Women’s mating strategies. Evolutionary Anthropology, 5, 4, 134-143.

Cashdan, E. (1999). How women compete. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 221.

Chapais, B. (1992). The role of alliances in social inheritance of rank among female primates. In A. H. Harcourt & F. B. de Waal (Eds.) Coalitions and alliances in humans and other animals (pp. 29-60). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Coe, K. (2003). The ancestress hypothesis. Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Collins, S. A. (2000). Men’s voices and women’s choices. Animal Behaviour, 60, 773-780.

Datta, S. B. (1992). Effects of availability of allies on female dominance structures. In A. H. Harcourt & F. B. de Waal (Eds.), Coalitions and alliances in humans and other animals (pp. 61-82). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dixson, A. F., Halliwell, G., East, R., Wignarajah, P., & Anderson, M. J. (2003). Masculine somatotype and hirsuteness as determinants of sexual attractiveness to women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32, 29-39.

Doran-Sheehy, D. M., Fernandez, D., & Borries, C. (2009). The strategic use of sex in wild female western gorillas. American Journal of Primatology, 71(12), 1011-1020.

Eagly, A. & Wood, W. (2011). Feminism and the evolution of sex differences and similarities. Sex Roles, 64, 758-767.

Eaton, S. B., Pike, M. C., Short, R.V., Lee, N.C., Trussell, J., Hatcher, R. A., Wood, J. W., Worthman, C. M., Blurton Jones, N. G., Konner, M. J., Hill, K. R., Bailey, R. & Hurtado, A. M. (1994). Women’s reproductive cancers in evolutionary context. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 69, 353-367.

Ellis, B. J. (1992). The evolution of sexual attraction: Evaluative mechanisms in women. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (pp. 267-288). New York: Oxford University Press.

Etcoff, N. (1999). Survival of the prettiest: The science of beauty. New York: Double Day.

Farrell, W., & Sterba, J. P. (2008). Does feminism discriminate against men? A debate. New York: Oxford University Press.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (1985). Myths of gender: Biological theories about women and men. New York: Basic Books.

Fausto-Sterling, A. Beyond difference: Feminism and evolutionary psychology. http://med.brown.edu/faculty/f/afs/pdfs/Beyond_Difference_8.pdf

Fausto-Sterling, A., Gowatry, P., & Zuk, M. (1997). Review essay: Evolutionary psychology and Darwinian feminism. Feminist Studies, 23(2), 403-417.

Fisher, H. (1999). The first sex: The natural talents of women and how they are changing the world. New York: Ballatine Books

Fisher, M. (2004). Female intrasexual competition decreases female facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Supplemental), 271, S283-285.

Fisher, M. & Cox, A. (2009). The influence of female attractiveness on competitor derogation. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 141-155.

Fisher, M. & Cox, A. (2009). The influence of male facial attractiveness on women’s receptivity. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 3, 49-61.

Fisher, M., Shaw, S., Worth, K., Smith, L., Reeve, C. (2010). How we view those who derogate: Perceptions of female competitor derogators. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 4(4), 265-276.

Frodi, A., Macaulay, J., & Thome, P. (1977). Are women always less aggressive than men? A review of the experimental literature. Psychological Bulletin, 84, 634-660.

Glazer, I. M. (1992). Interfemale aggression and resource scarcity in a cross-cultural perspective. In K. Bjorkqvist & P. Niemela (Eds.), Of mice and women: Aspects of female aggression (pp. 163-172). New York: Academic Press.

Gowaty, P. (1992). Evolutionary biology and feminism. Human Nature, 3, 217-249.

Gowaty, P. (1997). Darwinian feminists and feminist evolutionists. In P. A. Gowati (Ed.), Feminism and evolutionary biology (pp. 1-7). New York: Chapman.

Gowaty, P. (1997). Feminism and evolutionary biology: Boundaries, intersections, and frontiers. Springer.

Harris, C. (2011). Menstrual cycle and facial preferences reconsidered. Sex Roles, 64, 669-681.

Hazlett, R. L., & Hoehn-Saric, R. (2000). Effects of perceived physical attractiveness on females’ facial displays and affect. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 49-57.

Hines, N. J., & Fry, D. P. (1994). Indirect modes of aggression among women of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sex Roles, 30, 213-236.

Hrdy, S. B. (2009). Mothers and others: The evolutionary origins of mutual understanding. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hrdy, S. B. (1977). Langurs of abu: Female and male strategies of reproduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univesity Press.

Hrdy, S. B. (1999). Mother nature: A history of mothers, infants, and natural selection. New York: Pantheon Books.

Hrdy, S. B. (1981/1999). The woman that never evolved. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hurley, S. L. (unpublished). Feminism and evolutionary psychology: Can they be reconciled? http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/hurley/papers/fep.pdf

Ingo, K. M., Mize, K. D., & Pratarelli, M. E. (2007). Female intrasexual competition: Toward an evolutionary feminist theory. Theory and Science, 9. http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol9.1/ingo.html

Johnston, M., & Crawford, C. B. (1999). Stigmatising women’s aggressive behaviour: Who does it benefit and why? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 226-227.

Kenrick, D., Trost, M., & Sheets, V. (1996). Power, harassment, and trophy mates: The feminist advantages of an evolutionary perspective. In D. Buss & N. Malamuth, Sex, power, conflict: Evolutionary and feminist perspectives.

Koehler, N., Rhodes, G., & Simmons, L. W. (2002). Are human female preferences for symmetrical male faces enhanced when conception is likely? Animal Behavior, 64, 233-238.

Kostash, M. (1987). Feminism and nationalism. In V. Miner & H. E. Longino (Eds.), Competition: A feminist taboo (pp. 40-56). New York: The Feminist Press.

Kruger, D. & Fisher, M. (2008). Women’s life history attributes are associated with preferences in mating relationships. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 289-302.

Kuhle, B. X. (2011). Evolutionary psychology is compatible with equity feminism, but not with gender feminism: A reply to Eagly and Wood. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 39-43.

Lancaster, J. (1991). A feminist and evolutionary biology looks at women. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 34, 1-11.

Low, B. S. (2005). Women’s lives there, here, then, now: A review of women’s ecological and demographic constraints cross-culturally. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 64-87.

Low, B. (2000). Why sex matters: A Darwinian looks at human behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Mealey, L. (2000). Anorexia: A “losing” strategy? Human Nature, 11, 105-116.

Mealey, L. (1999). Evolutionary models of female intrasexual competition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 234.

Millam, E. L. (2010). Looking for a few good males: Female choice in evolutionary biology. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins.

Murray, C., Mane, S. V., & Pusey, A. (2007). Dominance rank influences female space use in wild chimpanzees, pan troglodytes: Towards an ideal despotic distribution. Animal Behavior, 74, 1795-1804.

Olson, E. (1994). Female voices of aggression in Tonga. Sex Roles, 30, 237-248.

Onyango, P., Gesquiere, L., Wango, S., Alberts, S., & Altmann, J. (2008). Persistence of maternal effects in baboons: Mother’s dominance rank at son’s conception predicts stress hormone levels in subadult males. Hormones and Behavior, 54, 319-24.

Österman, K., Björkqvist, K., Lagerspetz, K. M., Kaukiainen, A., Landau, S. F., Fraczek, A., & Caprara, G. V. (1998). Cross-cultural evidence of female indirect aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 24, 1-8.

Owens, L., Shute, R., & Slee, P. (2000). “Guess what I just heard!”: Indirect aggression among teenage girls in Australia. Aggressive Behaviour, 26, 67-83.

Palombit, R. A., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2001). Female-female competition for male “friends” in wild chacma baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus. Animal Behavior, 61, 1159-1171.

Paul, L., & Baenninger, M. A. (1991). Aggression by women: Mores, myths, and methods. In R. Baenninger (Ed.), Targets of violence and aggression (pp. 401-442). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Penton-Voak, I. S., & Perrett, D. I. (2002). Female preference for male faces changes cyclically: Further evidence. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 21, 39-48.

Penton-Voak, I. S., Perrett, D. I., Castles, D. L., Kobayashi, T., Burt, D. M., Murray, L. K., & Minamisawa, R. (1999). Female preference for male faces changes cyclically. Nature, 399, 741-742.

Pedersen, W., Putcha-Bhagavatula, A., & Miller, J. (2011). Are men and women really that different? Examining some of sexual strategies theory (SST)’s key assumptions about sex-distinct mating mechanisms. Sex Roles, 64, 629-643.

Pusey, A., Williams, J., & Goodall, J. (1997). The influence of dominance rank on the reproductive success of female chimpanzees. Science, 277, 828-831.

Pusey, A., Murray, C., Wallauer, W., Wilson, M., Wrobelewski, E., & Goodall, J. (2008). Severe aggression among female pan troglodytes schweinfurthii at Gombe national park, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology, 29. Published online July 29,
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Robbins, M., Robbins, A., Stekles, N., & Stekles, H. (2007). Socioecological influences on the reproductive success of female mountain gorillas (gorilla beringei beringei). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 919-931.

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Schuster, I., & Hartz-Karp, J. (1986). Kinder, kueche, kibbutz: Women’s aggression and status quo maintenance in a small scale community. Anthropology Quarterly, 59, 191-199.

Schuster, I. (1983). Women’s aggression: An African case study. Aggressive Behaviour, 9, 319-331.

Schuster, I. (1985). Female aggression and resource scarcity: A cross-cultural perspective. In M. Haug, D. Benton, P. F. Brain, B. Olivier, & J. Moss (Eds.), The Aggressive Female. Den Haag, Netherlands: CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke Bibloteheek.

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Silk, J., Beehner, J. Bergman, T., Crockford, C., Engh, A., Moscovice, L., Wittig, R., Seyfarth, R., & Cheney, D. (2009). The benefits of social capital: Close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biology, 276, 3099-3104.

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Smuts, B. (1992). Male aggression against women: An evolutionary perspective. Human Nature 3, 1-44.

Strout, S., Fisher, M., Kruger, D., & Steeleworthy, L. (2010). Pride and prejudice or children and cheating?: Jane Austen’s representations of female mating strategies. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 4(4), 317-331.

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Thompson, M., Stumpf, R., & Pusey A. (2008). Female reproductive strategies and competition in apes: An introduction. International Journal of Primatology, 29, 815-821.

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