Grandmotherhood
Subtitle: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life
Contributors: Eckart Voland (Editor); Athanasios Chasiotis (Editor); Wulf Schiefenhovel (Editor)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: August 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780813536095
Subjects: Women's studies; Sociology; Matriarchy; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Social Science; Social conditions; Older women; Parenting - Grandparenting; Anthropology - General; Women; Grandmothers
Description: "Bringing together theoretical and empirical work by internationally recognized scholars in anthropology, psychology, ethnography, and the social sciences, Grandmotherhood explores the evolutionary purpose and possibilities of female post-generative life. Students and scholars of human evolution, anthropology, and even gerontology will look to this volume as a major contribution to the current literature in evolutionary studies."--Jacket.