Bitch

A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

Bitch
Lucy Cooke
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 400pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780857524126
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Award-winning zoologist, broadcaster and author Lucy Cooke takes the reader on an incredibly timely and important global journey to meet the animals and scientists that are helping to redefine what is female. ' Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology. ' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTS_______________________________________________________________What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species. Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically. Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii. Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet. The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke' s brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution. __________Praise for Lucy' s previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS' Endlessly fascinating' - Bill Bryson' A fabulous read' - Sue Perkins' I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much' - Daily Express' A joy from beginning to end' - Guardian' Best science pick- deeply researched, sassily written' - Nature
Mr Darwin, your time is up. . . This is the evolutionary reboot us bitches have been waiting for. -- Sue Perkins Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology. -- Professor Alice Roberts A complete and precise exploration of sex , what a joy! -- Chris Packham Fun, informative and revolutionary all at once, Bitch should be required reading in school. This is a joyous, and often hilarious, romp in which Cooke simultaneously does justice to the actual data, gives voice to the substantive contributions of women scientists, and demolishes bias, blindness and ignorance about sex in the academy and in the public. After reading this book one will never look at a clownfish, a barnacle, an orca, an albatross or a human the same way again. And the world will be better for it. -- Augustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton University and author of The Creative Spark This is a vital book that blew me away; kick -ass, informative and astonishing . Discovering how Darwin ingrained and entrenched the patriarchy is hugely illuminating to our present culture. Give her a series immediately! -- Doon McKinnon
Lucy Cooke is an award-winning broadcaster and documentary filmmaker with a Masters in Zoology from the University of Oxford, where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins. She has presented prime time series for BBC, ITV and National Geographic and is a regular on Radio 4 where she hosts her own "Power of. . . " series and frequently guests on Infinite Monkey Cage and Sue Perkin' s Nature Table. Lucy has written for the Sunday Times, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She is the author of two previous books, A Little Book of Sloth, which was a New York Times bestseller and The Unexpected Truth about Animals, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and has been translated into 17 languages.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857524126
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 481g
Pages: 400

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