Sexual Conflict: Book

Arnqvist and Rowe provide a nice introduction to the topic of sexually antagonistic coevolution and its potential role in everything from mate choice, to postcopulatory selection, to the evolution of sex chromosomes. They are very upfront about the limitations of using current studies to infer antagonism versus other evolutionary processes in mediating interactions between genders, but provide thought-provoking discussion about the inclusion of antagonism in sexual selection theory. I would recommend also reading Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice for empirical support of a "benefits" based explanation of sexual selection. The two books balance each other out nicely and the authors acknowledge that different evolutionary forces may act at different time points to both introduce novel traits or behaviors as well as maintain them over time.