Download or read book Grandmotherhood written by Eckart Voland and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwinian theory holds that a successful life is measured in terms of reproduction. Bringing together work in anthropology, psychology, ethnography and the social sciences, this study explores the evolutionary purpose and possibilities of female post-generative life.