The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition

Maryanne L. Fisher is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada, and an Affiliate Faculty member at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana. She is an award-winning educator and has published over 90 journal articles spanning a variety of topics. She recently co-edited Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women for Oxford University Press.

• Section I: Introduction Chapter 1: IntroductionMaryanne L. Fisher Section II: Theory and Overview Chapter 2: Competition throughout Women's LivesBobbi Low Chapter 3: Sexual Competition Among Women: A Review of the Theory and Supporting EvidenceSteven Arnocky & Tracy Vaillancourt Chapter 4: Female Intrasexual Competition in Primates: Why Human's Aren't as Progressive as We ThinkNicole Scott Section III: Social Status and Aggression Chapter 5: Feminist and Evolutionary Perspectives of Female-Female Competition, Status Seeking, and Social Network Formation Laurette T. Liesen Chapter 6: Adolescent Peer Aggression and Female Reproductive CompetitionAndrew C. Gallup Chapter 7: Cooperation Drives Competition among Tsimane Women in the Bolivian AmazonStacey L. Rucas Chapter 8: Competition Between Female FriendsChenthila Nagamuthu & Elizabeth Page-Gould Chapter 9: The Element of Surprise: Women of the Dark TriadP. Lynne Honey Section IV: Communication and Gossip Chapter 10: Competitive Communication among Women: The Pretty Prevail by Means of Indirect AggressionGrace Anderson Chapter 11: Gossip and Competition among Women: How "The Gossip" Became a Woman and how "Gossip" Became Her Weapon of ChoiceFrancis T. McAndrew Chapter 12: Women's Talk? Exploring the Relationship Between Gossip, Sex, Mate Competition, and Mate PoachingKatelin Sutton & Megan J. Oaten Chapter 13: Informational Warfare: Coalitional Gossiping as a Strategy for Within-Group AggressionNicole H. Hess Section V: Mate Availability and Mating Relationships Chapter 14: Do Women Compete for Mates When Men are Scarce? Sex Ratio Imbalances and Women's Mate Competition Cross-CulturallyEmily Stone Chapter 15: Operational Sex Ratio and Female Competition: Scarcity Breeds IntensityHaley M. Dillon, Lora E. Adair, & Gary L. Brase Chapter 16: The Influence of Women's Mate Value on Intrasexual Competition Maryanne L. Fisher & Ana María Fernández Chapter 17: Single and Partnered Women: Competing to Obtain and Retain High Quality Men Gayle Brewer Chapter 18: I'll Have Who She's Having: Mate Copying, Mate Poaching and Mate Retention Lora E. Adair, Haley M. Dillon, & Gary L. Brase Chapter 19: Intrasexual Mate Competition and Breakups: Who Really Wins?Craig Morris, Melanie L. Beaussart, Chris Reiber, & Linda S. Krajewski Section VI: Endocrinology and Psychobiological Considerations Chapter 20: Psychobiological Responses to Competition in Women Raquel Costa, Miguel A. Serrano, & Alicia Salvador Chapter 21: The Endocrinology of Female CompetitionKelly Cobey, & Amanda Hahn Chapter 22: The Effect of Fertility on Women's Intrasexual Competition Lambrianos Nikiforidis, Ashley Rae Arsena, & Kristina M. Durante Section VII: Health and Aging Chapter 23: Social Aggression, Sleep and Wellbeing among Sidama Women of Rural Southwestern EthiopiaAlissa A. Miller & Stacey L. Rucas Chapter 24: Is Female Competition at the Heart of Reproductive Suppression and Eating Disorders?Catherine Salmon Chapter 25: Moderation of Female-female Competition for Matings by Competitors' Age and Parity Melanie MacEacheron & Lorne Campbell Section VIII: Motherhood and Family Chapter 26: Competitive Motherhood from a Comparative PerspectiveKatherine A. Valentine, Norman P. Li, & Jose C. Yong Chapter 27: Cooperative and Competitive Mothering: From Bonding to Rivalry in the Service of ChildrearingRosemarie I. Sokol-Chang, Rebecca L. Burch & Maryanne L. Fisher Chapter 28: Conflicting Tastes: Conflict Between Female Family Members in Choice of Romantic Partners Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair & Robert Biegler Chapter 29: Darwinian Perspectives on Women's Progenicide Alita J. Cousins & Theresa Porter Section IX: Physical Appearance Chapter 30: The Causes and Consequences of Women's Competitive BeautificationDanielle J. DelPriore, Marjorie L. Prokosch, & Sarah E. Hill Chapter 31: Ravishing Rivals: Female Intrasexual Competition and Cosmetic Surgery Shelli L. Dubbs, Ashleigh J. Kelly, & Fiona Kate Barlow Chapter 32: Intrasexual Competition Among Beauty Pageant ContestantsRebecca Shaiber, Laura Johnsen & Glenn Geher Chapter 33: Fashion as a Set of Signals in Female Intrasexual CompetitionLaura Johnsen & Glenn Geher Section X: Competition in Virtual Contexts Chapter 34: Female Virtual Intrasexual Competition and its ConsequencesJose C. Yong, Norman P. Li, Katherine A. Valentine, & April R. Smith Chapter 35: Facebook Frenemies and Selfie-Promotion: Women and Competition in the Digital AgeAmanda E. Guitar & Rachael A. Carmen Chapter 36: Women's Use of Computer Games to Practice Intrasexual CompetitionTami M. Meredith Section XI: Competition in Applied Settings Chapter 37: The Buzz on the Queen Bee and Other Characterizations of Women's Intrasexual Competition at WorkLucie Kocum, Delphine S. Courvoisier, & Saundra Vernon Chapter 38: Food as a Means for Female Power Struggles Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Liselot Hudders, & Maryanne L. Fisher Chapter 39: Evolution of Artistic and Aesthetic Propensities through Female Competitive OrnamentationMarco A. C. Varella, Jaroslava Varella Valentová, & Ana María Fernández Chapter 40: "Playing Like a Girl": Women in Competition in Sport and Physical Activity Hayley Russell, Julia Dutove, & Lori Dithurbide Section XII: Conclusion Chapter 41: ConclusionGregory Carter & Maryanne L. Fisher

"For the rest of this century, at least, no one will be able to write about women and competition without referring to this superb handbook." --Jerome H. Barkow, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University"What a superb book, with articles by everyone from primatologists to evolutionary psychologists to feminists. It's impressively comprehensive too, covering a huge range of subjects-from female mate poaching, exploitation and deception to women's cooperative spirit and more benign tactics to compete. And what a relief: It's honest. It eschews the current appetite to make women victims and instead captures us as we really are-clever, dedicated, sometimesmanipulative and often savvy players in the mating market, with friends, in business and with kin. [The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition] will live a long time." --Helen Fisher, Senior ResearchFellow, The Kinsey Institute; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University