Agents of Patriarchy Teach Gender

The evolutionary origins of patriarchy.

This article argues that feminist analyses of patriarchy should be expanded to address the evolutionary basis of male motivation to control female sexuality. Evidence from other primates of male sexual coercion and female resistance to it indicates that the sexual conflicts of interest that underlie patriarchy predate the emergence of the human species. Humans, however, exhibit more extensive m...

Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender & Sexual Orientation to Its Origins

Thoughts on patriarchy.

I felt I could not let the diatribe1 posing as a scientific article by Professor Malcolm Potts and his wife, Dr Martha Campbell, go without comment. When one reads an article that contains gross inaccuracy, even in part, the credibility of the rest and of the journal running it is thrown into question. The couple has an understandable modern problem with St Augustine but that is no excuse for t...

Learning to Teach Reinforcement Learning Agents

In this article we study the transfer learning model of action advice under a budget. We focus on reinforcement learning teachers providing action advice to heterogeneous students playing the game of Pac-Man under a limited advice budget. First, we examine several critical factors affecting advice quality in this setting, such as the average performance of the teacher, its variance and the impo...

The origins and future of patriarchy: the biological background of gender politics.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(3) Introduction Langur monkeys live in social groups consisting of several females and their offspring together with one alpha male, who fights off other males and controls the females. When primatologist Sarah Hrdy studied these monkeys in the 1970s, she found that after an alpha male was defeated then the new dominant male set about systematically...