Of mice and women: aspects of female aggression

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Part 1 The myth of the non-aggressive female: new trends in the study of female aggression, K. Bjorkqvist and P. Niemela biology does not make more aggressive than women, D. Adams the aggressive female rodent - redressing a scientific bias, P. Brain, et al hormones and human aggression, D. Benton. Part 2 The development of female aggressive patterns: the development of direct and indirect aggressive strategies in males and females, K. Bjorkqvist, et al sex differences in aggressive play and toy preference, J. Goldstein differing normative beliefs about aggression for boys and girls, R. Huesmann, et al gender differences in violence - biology and/or socialization?, L.D. Eron changes in patterns of aggressiveness among girls over a decade, V. Viemero patterns of aggressive-hostile behaviour orientation among adolescent boys and girls, A. Frcaczek the path to adulthood for aggressively inclined girls, L. Pulkkinen gender differences in coronary-prone aggression, L. Keltikangas-Jarvinen expressions of aggression in the life stories of aged women, J.E. Ruth and P. Oberg. Part 3 Cultural difference in regard to female aggression: matrifocality and female aggression in margariteno society, H.B. Cook interfemale aggression and resource scarcity in a crosscultural perspective, I.M. Glazer Women are women and are men - how Bellonese women get even, R. Kuschel female aggression among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Lady Macbeth as a problem for Shakespeare, D. Fry. Part 4 Female aggression and its social settings: sex and violence in Acali - six females and five males isolated on a raft on the Atlantic and the Caribbean for 101 days, S. Genoves sex differences in conflict and aggression in individual and group settings, H.F.M. Lodewijkx the other sex - how are women different? gender, dominance and intimate relations in social interaction, B. Lindfors alcohol and female disinhibition, R. Lindman battling Amazons - responses to female fighters, G.W. Russell. Part 5 The ambivalence of motherhood: the great mother, J. Myyra vicissitudes of mother's hate, P. Niemela vampire and child-saviour motifs in the takes of Isak Dinesen, A. d'Heurle. Part 6 Female aggression in subhuman species: female aggression among the great apes - a psychoanalytical perspective, R. Holmstrom aggression in canine females, J.P. Scogg sex, drugs, and defensive behaviour - implications for animal models of defense, D.C. Blanchard and R.J. Blanchard aspects of aggression, aggressive arousal, and sexual behaviour in female hamsters, M. Potegal. Part contents.