Gender Gap: How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to theTransaction Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Differences -- CHAPTER 2 Biological Boots -- The Power of Evolution -- Why Sex? -- The Cost of Sex -- A World Divided in Two -- What Makes Males Tick -- Role Reversals -- The Battle of the Sexes? -- What Do Women Want? -- CHAPTER 3 Sex -- What Turns Men On -- Variety -- A Sense of Newness -- More Than One -- Visual Stimuli -- Any Woman Will Do -- Men Who Are Superachievers -- Liking Bad Girls But Marrying Good Ones -- Weird Sex -- What Turns Women On -- One at a Time -- Rewards of Intimacy -- Resources -- Making Choices -- Female Sexuality -- Mysteries of Womanhood -- The Female Orgasm -- Ready and Willing -- Change of Life -- What Homosexuality Says About Sex Differences -- Strategies for Choosing a Mate -- Understanding Jealousy -- Understanding Love -- CHAPTER 4 Violence -- Why Men Are More Violent -- Getting Away with Murder -- Other Societies, Similar Patterns -- Violence at the Bottom -- Sex and Violence -- Rape -- Abusive Husbands -- Adultery -- Murdering One's Spouse -- Explanations Are Not Excuses -- CHAPTER 5 Parenting -- Why the Imbalance? -- The Working Woman's Dilemma -- Back to Biology -- When Men Parent -- Mommy's Babies, Daddy's Maybes -- Guaranteeing Paternity -- Reassuring Dad -- The Art of Deceit -- Stepparenting -- When (Step) Parents Kill -- Summing Up -- CHAPTER 6 Childhood -- Roots of Childhood Differences -- Girls Being Girls and Boys Being Boys -- Children at Play -- Treating Sons and Daughters Differently -- When Parents Favor One Sex -- The Whispering Within -- CHAPTER 7 Body -- Basic Differences -- From the Beginning -- Adult Differences -- Evolution of the Human Physique -- Too Short, Too Tall ... Just Right -- What Appeals to Men About Women -- So Feminine a Shape