Education
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan.
She is the director of Women"s Studies at Appalachian State University. Her research and writings have dealt extensively with evolutionary psychology as applied to gender. Her most recent book is The Caveman Mystique: People’s-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science (2008, Routledge).
This book reveals McCaughey"s ability to complicate debates in both feminism and evolutionary science. Among her writings are two similarly titled books: Real Knockouts: the Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense () in 1997 and Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies (), which she co-edited in 2001 with Neal King.
