Biology:Darwinian feminism
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Darwinian feminism, also known as evolutionary feminism[1] or feminist sociobiology,[2] is a school of feminism based on sociobiology and Darwinian evolutionary theory, incorporating scientific findings into feminist analyses of human sociosexual dynamics. Historically, it was influential in driving research on female agency in sexual selection, which prior to the advent of Darwinian feminism had nearly exclusively focused on males. Chief contributors to Darwinian feminist thought include Patricia Adair Gowaty, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, and Amy Parish.
Contribution to science
Darwinian feminists such as Sarah Blaffer Hrdy have been influential in research on sexual selection in females,[1] historically understudied in the literature that primarily focused on male individuals as units of sexual selection. Hrdy found that promiscuity and extra-pair copulation among primates such as common chimpanzees and Hanuman langurs was a defence mechanism against infanticide by males by way of paternity confusion.[3]
Darwinian feminists have restructured aspects of the vocabulary of zoology and ethology by altering terminology that in their view centers a behavioural phenomenon in terms of male competition.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Łuczaj, Kamil (2012). "Ewolucjonistyczny feminizm Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Evolutionary feminism of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy" (in pl). Studia Humanistyczne AGH 11 (2): 45. doi:10.7494/human.2012.11.2.45. ISSN 2084-3364. http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2012.11.2/45.php. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hoquet, Thierry (February 2010). "Is Sociobiology Amendable? Feminist and Darwinian women biologists confront the paradigm of sexual selection" (in en). Diogenes 57 (1): 113–126. doi:10.1177/0392192110369426. ISSN 0392-1921. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0392192100321940/type/journal_article. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
- ↑ Gowaty, Patricia Adair (Spring 2003). "Sexual Natures: How Feminism Changed Evolutionary Biology" (in en). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (3): 901–921. doi:10.1086/345324. ISSN 0097-9740. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/345324. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
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