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100 1 $aLloyd, Elisabeth Anne.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87107009
245 14 $aThe case of the female orgasm :$bbias in the science of evolution /$cElisabeth A. Lloyd.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2005.
300 $a311 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-293) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tThe basics of female orgasm --$g3.$tPair-bond accounts of female orgasm --$g4.$tFurther evolutionary accounts of female orgasm --$g5.$tThe byproduct account --$g6.$tWarring approaches to adaptation --$g7.$tSperm-competition accounts --$g8.$tBias.
520 1 $a"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-one 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 spanning 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFemale orgasm.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095594
650 0 $aHuman evolution.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062868
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