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For the rest of this century, at least, no one will be able to write about women and competition without referring to this superb handbook. --Jerome H. Barkow, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University What a superb book, with articles by everyone from primatologists to evolutionary psychologists to feminists. It's impressively comprehensive too, covering a huge range of subjects-from female mate poaching, exploitation and deception to women's cooperative spirit and more benign tactics to compete. And what a relief: It's honest. It eschews the current appetite to make women victims and instead captures us as we really are-clever, dedicated, sometimes manipulative and often savvy players in the mating market, with friends, in business and with kin. [The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition] will live a long time. --Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University

For the rest of this century, at least, no one will be able to write about women and competition without referring to this superb handbook. --Jerome H. Barkow, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University What a superb book, with articles by everyone from primatologists to evolutionary psychologists to feminists. It's impressively comprehensive too, covering a huge range of subjects-from female mate poaching, exploitation and deception to women's cooperative spirit and more benign tactics to compete. And what a relief: It's honest. It eschews the current appetite to make women victims and instead captures us as we really are-clever, dedicated, sometimes manipulative and often savvy players in the mating market, with friends, in business and with kin. [The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition] will live a long time. --Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University

For the rest of this century, at least, no one will be able to write about women and competition without referring to this superb handbook. --Jerome H. Barkow, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University What a superb book, with articles by everyone from primatologists to evolutionary psychologists to feminists. It's impressively comprehensive too, covering a huge range of subjects-from female mate poaching, exploitation and deception to women's cooperative spirit and more benign tactics to compete. And what a relief: It's honest. It eschews the current appetite to make women victims and instead captures us as we really are-clever, dedicated, sometimes manipulative and often savvy players in the mating market, with friends, in business and with kin. [The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition] will live a long time. --Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University

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Maryanne L. Fisher is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada, and an Affiliate Faculty member at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana. She is an award-winning educator and has published over 90 journal articles spanning a variety of topics. She recently co-edited Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women for Oxford University Press.

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