Edited by Todd K. Shackelford and Aaron T. Goetz
Sexual conflict - what happens when the reproductive interests of males and females diverge - occurs in all sexually reproducing species, including humans. The Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans is the first volume to assemble the latest theoretical and empirical work on sexual conflict
in humans from the leading scholars in the fields of evolutionary psychology and anthropology.
Following an introductory section that outlines theory and research on sexual conflict in humans and non-humans, ensuing sections discuss human sexual conflict and its manifestations before and
during mating. Chapters in these sections address a range of factors topics and factors, including:
* Sexual coercion, jealousy, and partner violence and killing
* The ovulatory cycle, female orgasm, and sperm competition
* Chemical warfare between ejaculates and female
reproductive tracts
Chapters in the next section address issues of sexual conflict after the birth of a child. These chapters address sexual conflict as a function of the local sex ratio, men's functional (if unconscious) concern with paternal resemblance to a child, men's reluctance to
pay child support, and mate expulsion as a tactic to end a relationship. The handbook's concluding section includes a chapter that considers the impact of sexual conflict on a grander scale, notably on cultural, political, and religious systems.
Addressing sexual conflict at its molecular
and macroscopic levels, The Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans is a fascinating resource for the study of intersexual behavior.
Part One: Introduction to Sexual Conflict
1. Todd K. Shackelford, Aaron T. Goetz, James R. Liddle, and Lance S. Bush: Sexual Conflict in Humans
2. Joris M. Koene: Sexual Conflict in Non-human Animals
Part Two: Sexual Conflict prior to Mating
3. Charles Crawford and
Catherine Salmon: Integrating Social Exchange and Sexual Selection Theory in the Study of Mating Interactions
4. Norman P. Li, Oliver Sng, and Peter K. Jonason: Sexual Conflict in Mating Strategies
5. Aurelio Jos Figueredo, Paul Robert Gladden, and Connie J. A. Beck: Intimate Partner
Violence and Life History Strategy
6. Melissa Emery Thompson and Louis C. Alvarado: Sexual Conflict and Sexual Coercion in Comparative Evolutionary Perspective
7. Achim Schtzwohl: Romantic Jealousy and Sexual Conflict
8. Catherine Salmon and Charles Crawford: When Intersexual Conflict
Leads to Intrasexual Competition: The Reproductive Suppression Hypothesis
9. Jennifer Leo, Saul L. Miller, and Jon K. Maner: It's Not All Conflict: Relationship Maintenance Psychology
Part Three: Sexual Conflict during Mating
10. Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, Anthony C.
Little, and David R. Feinberg: Sexual Conflict and the Ovulatory Cycle
11. David A. Puts and Khytam Dawood: Is Female Orgasm a Covert Mate Choice Mechanism?
12. William F. McKibbin: Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
13. Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., Rebecca L. Burch, and Loni R. Petricone:
Sexual Conflict, Infidelity, and Vaginal/Semen Chemistry
14. Dietrich Klusmann and Wolfgang Berner: Sexual Motivation in Mateships and Sexual Conflict
15. Joseph A. Camilleri and Vernon L. Quinsey: Sexual Conflict and Partner Rape
16. Farnaz Kaighobadi, Todd K. Shackelford, and Aaron T.
Goetz: Sexual Conflict in Mateships: From Mate-Retention to Murder
Part Four: Sexual Conflict after Conception
17. Daniel J. Kruger and Carey J. Fitzgerald: Sexual Conflict and the Operational Sex Ratio
18. Steven M. Platek and J. Ryan Porter: Sexual Conflict and Paternal
Resemblance: Insight from Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
19. Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, David P. Schmitt, and Catherine Salmon: Deadbeat Dads: Evolutionary Perspectives on Providing Child Support
20. T. Joel Wade: Mate Expulsion and Sexual Conflict
Part
Five: Conclusion
21. Gregory Gorelik and Todd K. Shackelford: Spheres of Sexual Conflict
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Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University. Aaron T. Goetz, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton.