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 Drawing upon 2!000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews with men and women! this lucid and accessible new study reveals why the sexual psychologies of men and women are so different--and so resistant to change. Zusammenfassung Reports on the results of interviews with over 2000 university undergraduates, law and medical students about their sexual behaviour, and of an additional 200 personal interviews with adults aged 25-60. Concludes that the sexes are still swayed by evolutionary constraints and emotional alarms that remind them of how to make mating choices.

Sommario

• 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Townsend, John Marshall Townsend, John Marshall (Associate Professor of An Townsend, John Marshall (Associate Professor of Anthropology Townsend, Townsend John Marshall
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780195114881
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511488-1
• Pagine: 298
• Serie: Oxford University Press
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Psychology: sexual behaviour