Evolutionary psychology and Darwinian feminism. (antagonism caused by earlier scientific claims that males are by nature superior to women)

From: Feminist Studies | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Fausto-Sterling, Anne; Gowaty, Patricia Adair; Zuk, Marlene | Copyright information

The antagonism between evolutionary psychologists and feminists dates back to the publication of Charles Darwin's book, 'Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex,' in 1871 and the imminent retort by Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Evolutionary psychologists have claimed since then that feminism is bound to fail due to the inferior physical nature of women. The correlation between animal behavior and human sexuality underwent a transformation in the 1970s when feminists ventured into the fi...

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