Of mice and women : aspects of female aggression / edited by Kaj Björkqvist, Pirkko Niemelä
This book is a comprehensive compilation and discussion of research findings on female aggression from anthropology, social psychology, animal research, case studies, and representations in literature. This multidisciplinary approach will address such questions as: 'Are females less aggressive...
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Academic Press, Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The myth of the nonaggressive female. New trends in the study of female aggression
- Biology does not make men more aggressive than women
- The aggressive female rodent: redressing a "scientific" bias
- Hormones and human aggression
- PART II: The development of female aggressive patterns. The development of direct and indirect aggressive strategies in males and females
- Sex differences in aggressive play and toy preference
- Differing normative beliefs about aggression for boys and girls
- Gender differences in violence: biology and/or socialization?
- Changes in patterns of aggressiveness among Finnish girls over a decade
- Patterns of aggressive-hostile behavior orientation among adolescent boys and girls
- The path to adulthood for aggressively inclined girls
- Gender differences in coronary-prone aggression
- Expressions of aggression in the life stories of aged women
- Part III: Cultural differences in regard to female aggression. Matrifocality and female aggression in Margariteño society
- Interfemale aggression and resource scarcity in a cross-cultural perspective
- "Women are women and men are men": how Bellonese women get even
- Female aggression among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Lady Macbeth as a problem for Shakespeare
- Part IV: Female aggression and its social settings. Sex and violence on Acali: six females and five males isolated on a raft on the Atlantic and the Caribbean for 101 days
- Sex differences in conflict and aggression in individual and group settings
- The other sex: how are women different? Gender, dominance, and intimate relations in social interaction
- Alcohol and female disinhibition
- Battling Amazons: Responses to female fighters
- Part V: The ambivalence of motherhood. The Great Mother
- Vicissitudes of mother's hate
- Vampire and child savior motifs in the tales of lsak Dinesen
- Part VI: Female aggression in subhuman species. Female aggression among the great apes: a psychoanalytic perspective
- Aggression in canine females
- Sexy drugs, and defensive behavior: implications for animal models of defense
- Aggression and aggressiveness in female golden hamsters: the attack priming effect as tour guide to the central mechanisms of aggression
- Aggressive female mice and learning-sensitive open-field parameters
- Aggressive behavior in female mice as a correlated characteristic in selection for aggressiveness in male mice
- Biological correlates of attack on lactating intruders by female mice: a topical review
- Female aggression in mice: developmental, genetic, and contextual factors.