Hormonal : the hidden intelligence of hormones : how they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser / Martie Haselton, PhD
By: Haselton, Martie Gail [author].
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First edition.Description: 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316369213.Subject(s): Women -- Health and hygiene | Hormones, Sex | Human behavior -- Endocrine aspects | Sex (Psychology) -- Endocrine aspects | Human behavior -- Endocrine aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RA778 .H37 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012387 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
Introduction: The new Darwinian feminism -- The trouble with hormones -- Heat seekers -- Around the Moon in twenty-eight days -- The evolution of desire -- Mate shopping -- The (not quite) undercover ovulator -- Maidens to matriarchs -- Hormonal intelligence
Identifies the sources of behavioral and physiological changes attributed to a woman's hormone cycles, revealing a hidden adaptive intelligence in the body's hormones and how an awareness of protective hormonal activity can help women to make better-informed decisions