What Women Want - What Men Want - Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently

Informationen zum Autor John Townsend is Associate Professor of Anthropology, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He is the author of Cultural Conceptions and Mental Illness and lives in Syracuse, New York, with his family. Klappentext Offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what they look for in a mate. Zusammenfassung What Women Want--What Men Want offers evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament of marriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Attractiveness, Sexuality, and Choosing Mates 2: Women's and Men's Sexualtiies: Differences in arousal, Goals, and Selectivity 3: Emotional Alarms: The Link between Sex and Love 4: What Do Women Want? Women's Perceptions of Sexual Attractiveness 5: Choosing Partners for Marriage: Male Status and Female Competition 6: What Do Men Want? Men's Criteria for Choosing Partners 7: The Dating-Mating Market: The Man Shortage and Marriage Squeeze 8: Romance, Male Dominance, and the Quest for Investment 9: What Men and Women Want in Marriage 10: Who Does the Diapers and the Dishes? The Domestic Division of Labor 11: Are Men and Women Alike Around the Globe? Sex in China and Somoa 12: Coping with Sex Differences and Cultural Change Notes References Index

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• Authors: John Marshall Townsend, John Marshall (Associate Professor of An Townsend, John Marshall (Associate Professor of Anthropology Townsend, Townsend John Marshall
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780195131031
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513103-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Sociology: family & relationships, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour