I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. Although the book contains chapters such as "The Evolution of Animal Mating Systems" and "The Biological Basis of Human Patterns of Mating and Marriage" I chose primarily to devote much of the focus of this essay to the latter chapters of the book ("The Social Anthropology of Marriage and Mating" and "Mating, the Family, and Marriage: A Sociological View"). The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... The chapters presented some interesting variations of mati...

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This chapter, as a whole, has evoked mixed reactions from me. On one hand it was really nice to read a chapter that wasn't loaded with sexism and bias. ... On the other hand, a lot of the chapter was just a psychology review. The basic premise of the chapter was that there is no distinct psychology or personality for women. ... The different theories presented in the book brought up good points and most of them made sense. ...

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In Chabon's latest book, Manhood for Amateurs, rather than attacking the traditional characteristics attributed to masculinity – leader, hunter, and warrior – he argues that no man can fulfill them. ... In the chapter style of Manhood, Chabon told us four stories about his experiences of acting masculine and he also defended himself for cooking for his family and carrying a "murse." Michael Chabon took a stand in his book and defend men's refusal to stop and ask for directions is a "foundational cliche of woman's criticism, analysis, and stand-up mockery of male...

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In Zehra Arat's chapter entitled Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un) Changing Political Economy of Gender, she writes that, "the common denominator of women in all societies, including the industrialized ones, is their subordinate status." ... In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory, she writes about the World Bank and its theories. ... Similarly, Margaret Leahy, in her book, Development Strategies and the Status of Women, she discusses United Nations conferences where information on women's status" economically, p...

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Buss tried to explain the evolutionary truth about relationships in his book The Evolution of Desire and bases his theories on a cross-cultural study of more than 10,000 respondents. ... Buss emphasizes the role of males and females in mate selection and asserts in later chapters that much has gone unchanged, "it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit would have suffered selectively on the mating market. ...

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The outcry of the conservative press made much of sexual "filth" but was probably as much animated by outrage at Lawrence's disenchantment with modernity and militarism, some critics arguing that such a book would undermine the moral health of the nation in a time of war. ... There appears to be an allusion to Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Chapter 15 when Skrebensky says to Ursula: "I am not afraid of the darkness in England [ ]. ...

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Numerous individuals feel as if they are pressured by the idea of an ideal body image through the media. In many instances, individuals often have their own ideal body image, but because of standards that humanity has set for the "perfect body" that are reinforced through the media, men and women ar...

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