The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present

by Paul Seabright

Book Overview

How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and women

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133018
• ISBN13: 9780691133010
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"