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Routledge On the Origins of Gender Inequality - Routledge

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This Routledge book explores the biological foundations of gender inequality through the lens of reproductive and lactation patterns that shaped human society for millennia. The author argues that until around 1900, infant nursing practices - occurring roughly every fifteen minutes for two years - were driven by evolutionary pressures to maximise child survival in forager societies. Frequent suckling prevented pregnancy, allowing families to space births strategically; infants born too close together meant older siblings could not participate in food gathering, threatening their survival. These biological imperatives created social structures that persisted into the modern era, establishing patterns of inequality that continued long after technological advances made frequent nursing unnecessary. By tracing gender inequality back to its reproductive origins rather than cultural or economic factors alone, this work offers a fresh anthropological perspective on how biological realities shaped gender roles across human civilisation.

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On the Origins of Gender Inequality presents a biological perspective on how reproductive patterns influenced the development of gender inequality throughout human history.

The Routledge publication examines nursing practices that occurred every fifteen minutes for approximately two years in forager societies and their evolutionary significance.

This book traces how infant survival pressures and birth spacing strategies created lasting social structures that extended far beyond their original biological necessity.

The work connects anthropological evidence from forager cultures to explain the persistence of gender inequality patterns into the modern era.

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15 February 2007
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19 February 2007

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