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Male dominance hierarchies and women's intrasexual competition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

John Marshall Townsend
John Marshall Townsend
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 [email protected]
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Abstract

In their competition for higher-status men, women with higher socioeconomic status use indirect forms of aggression (ridicule and gossip) to derogate lower-status female competitors and the men who date them. Women's greater tendency to excuse their aggression is arguably a cultural enhancement of an evolutionarily based sex difference and not solely a cultural construction imposed by patriarchy.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 235 - 236
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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