Why can't a woman, Benjamin DeMott wonders, be less like a man? Related Link First Chapter: 'Killer Woman Blues' By EMILY EAKIN KILLER WOMAN BLUES Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power. By Benjamin DeMott. 235 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $26. he cultural critic...
Two scientists argue that plain old evolution explains why men rape. Related Link First Chapter: 'A Natural History of Rape' By FRANS B. M. DE WAAL A NATURAL HISTORY OF RAPE Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion. By Randy Thornhill and Craig...
Two views of what it's like to be young and male in the United States today. Related Links First Chapter: 'The War Against Boys' First Chapter: 'Real Boys' Voices' By ROBERT COLES THE WAR AGAINST BOYS How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. By Christina Hoff Sommers. 251 pp. New York...
How an animal behaviorist became one of the boys. By ROB NIXON A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR By Robert M. Sapolsky. 304 pp. New York: Scribner. $25. obert M. Sapolsky had the good sense, from a writer's point of view, to do a lot of crazy things while he was young. Most of them involved baboons. The week he...
To get at the essential nature of truth, a historian argues, we must look to the past. Related Link First Chapter: 'Truth' By MARY LEFKOWITZ TRUTH A History and a Guide for the Perplexed. By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 257 pp. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press. $23.95. ow do we know...
An anthropologist offers a study of the nature of mothering among humans and others. Related Link First Chapter: 'Mother Nature' By ANNE MAGURRAN MOTHER NATURE A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection. By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Illustrated. 723 pp. New York: Pantheon Books. $35. arah...
We still get jealous, and that's not a bad thing. Related Link First Chapter: 'The Dangerous Passion' By COURTNEY WEAVER THE DANGEROUS PASSION Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex. By David M. Buss. 258 pp. New York: The Free Press. $25. s Darwin replacing Freud as the spokesman for a...
hat is it that makes a long-legged, lynx-eyed young editrix leave a dinner at midnight in New York on an evening when whipping winds take the temperature to 20 below zero to drag her lean, leather-clad frame to a bar where a man with bad intentions may or may not appear? It's neurons, willful...
A science journalist traces the history of humans through 23 pairs of chromosomes. By LEE M. SILVER GENOME The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. By Matt Ridley. 344 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $26. housands of years ago, a tribe of Asiatic people with an unusual language...
A naturalist explores the anthropology of food and its place in the relation between the sexes. By STEWART KELLERMAN THE PRIMAL FEAST Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love. By Susan Allport. 259 pp. New York: Harmony Books. $23. y 86-year-old...