ANT211H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Genital Modification And Mutilation, Human Sexual Activity, Human Penis
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Women show greater restraint in their use of direct intrasexual aggression, which, i argue, is a result of their higher parental investment and the consequently greater reproductive cost of injury or death. Women usually compete for mates by advertising qualities valued by men (beauty and sexual exclusiveness) and by using indirect means of denigrating rivals (through gossip and stigmatisation). Many women compete over things they think men value, such as looking sexy The most dangerous outcome of this is self hatred; girls and women disparage themselves and dissociate from other females. United states and europe, we lack the data to examine the cultural specificity or generality of female competition. Certainly sex differences in aggression are universal (daiy & wilson, 1988), but competition can take other forms. Some work suggests that competition is more direct and physical among poor and minority women than among their middle-class white counterparts (brown, 1998; eder, 1990).
