The tending instinct : how nurturing is essential for who we are and how we live / Shelley E. Taylor.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Times Books, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0805068376
- 9780805068375
- 0805072896
- 9780805072891
- 304.5 23
- HM628 .T38 2002
- HM 628 T246 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-280) and index.
The power of tending -- The origins of tending -- The tending brain -- Good and bad tending -- A little help from friends and strangers -- Women befriending -- Tending in marriage -- Men's groups -- Where altruism may reside -- The social context of tending -- The tending society.
Taylor examines stress, relationships, and human society through the special lens of women's biology. She draws on genetics, evolutionary psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to show how this tending process begins virtually at the moment of conception and literally crafts the biology of offspring through genes that rely on caregiving for their expression. Taylor also examines what drives women to seek each other's company, and to tend to the young and the infirm -- acts that greatly benefit the group but often at great cost to the individual.
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