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biological basis of gender roles
bipedal
Bipedal Locomotion
Breastfeeding
Broadest Side
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Cryptic Female Choice
diet
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evolutionary anthropology
Explain Group Differences
Frequent Suckling
Herding Societies
Hoe Cultures
human
Human Milk
infant
lactation ecology
locomotion
Male Male Alliances
Mammary Gland
maternal investment theory
Maternal Pelvis
milk
mode
Monogamous Pair Bonding
Oral Carrying
physiological
Physiological Sex Differences
Platonic Essentialism
Plow Societies
primate social structure
Prolonged Lactation
reproductive biology
sex
sexual division of labor
SIDS Rate
Soil Fertility
Spencerian Selection
Tse Tse Fly
Wet Nurse
Women's Secondary Status
Women’s Secondary Status
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781594513619
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In our fast-paced world of technology and conveniences, the biological origins of women's inequality can be forgotten. This book offers a richer understanding of gender inequality by explaining a key cause-women's reproductive and lactation patterns. Until about 1900, infants nursed every fifteen minutes on average for two years because very frequent suckling prevented pregnancy. The practice evolved because it maximized infant survival. If a forager child was born before its older sibling could take part in the daily food search, the older one died. This practice persisted until the modern era because until after the discovery of the germ theory of disease, human milk was the only food certain to be unspoiled. Lactation patterns excluded women from the activities that led to political leadership. During the twentieth century the ancient mode declined and women entered the labor market en masse. Joan Huber challenges feminists toward a richer understanding of biological origins of inequality-knowledge that can help women achieve greater equality today.
Joan Huber taught at Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1984 she became Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University, retiring there as Provost in 1994. In 1990 she edited Macro-micro Linkages in Sociology (Sage: ASA Presidential Series).
