Feminism and Evolutionary Biology: Boundaries, Intersections and Frontiers

Standing at the intersection of evolutionary biology and feminist theory is a large audience interested in the questions one field raises for the other. Have evolutionary biologists worked largely or strictly within a masculine paradigm, seeing males as evolving and females as merely reacting passively or carried along with the tide? Would our view of nature ‘red in tooth in claw' be different if women had played a larger role in the creation of evolutionary theory and through education in ...