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Definition: the coy female is the idea that women are much more selective than men when choosing their mate. They try to find the ideal suitor and try to save themselves for that person while men have sex with as many females as they can. The coy female allows men to pursuit them and make the first move. This supports and backs up the idea of the pro-natal model. Relevance: when we look at women in families, we attempt to understand their roles and how they came about. If they dress inappropriately they are seen as sluts, while men can sleep around with many women and are not seen as sluts. It is normalized that men can be promiscuous but women cannot: this is where we see gender dimorphic. Men and women are not alike, they are seen as complete opposites, while men have more social rights than women do. Examples: this is evident in the film the purity myth.

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The gray mouse lemur is a species in which females come into estrus and mate with several males on one night each year. Females accept any and all partners, but a genetic analysis of offspring produced by female gray mouse lemurs indicates that mothers and actual fathers differed with respect to their MHC genes to a greater degree than mothers and males selected at random from the population. Use these results to evaluate the various hypotheses on the indirect genetic benefits of polyandry. What do they suggest about the mechanism that enables a sexually promiscuous female mammal to exercise mate choice?

27. Attempts to reclaim the term ‘slut’ have been criticized on several fronts. The first is that it continues to define women in terms of their sexual behavior. The second is that it creates new pressures for girls and women to conform to changing sexual norms. This second aspect has been referred to as the:

lesbian imperative

pleasure imperative

slut imperative

liberation imperative

30.

According to Jessica Fields in “Knowing Girls: Gender and Learning in School-Based Sexuality Education,” in what ways was the meaning of “knowing” differently gendered for girls and boys in the sexual education classroom?

Girls experienced embarrassment and vulnerability when female bodies were presented and discussed in class because knowledge of female bodies was equated with knowing the specific female bodies in the classroom

Girls’ answering a question incorrectly during class was perceived as an indication that they were sexually inexperienced

Girls’ answering a question correctly during class was perceived as an indication that they were sexually promiscuous

Both a and c

1.Why would you predict that females in species with internal fertilization and long periods of gestation would be choosier in selecting their mates than females in other species that lack these traits?

2.As we talked about in elephant seals, in many species, there is much greater variance in male reproductive success than in female reproductive success. This could result from a few dominant males controlling the access to the breeding grounds the females need to give birth. There are other ways, however, to get the same pattern of variance in male reproductive success WITHOUT males controlling access to a resource or to females. How might you get the same variance in male reproductive success via intersexual selection?