Bitch: on the female of the species
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A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser.
Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been convinced that the males of the animal kingdom are the interesting ones—dominating and promiscuous, while females are dull, passive, and devoted.
In Bitch, Cooke tells a new story. Whether investigating same-sex female albatross couples that raise chicks, murderous mother meerkats, or the titanic battle of the sexes waged by ducks, Cooke shows us a new evolutionary biology, one where females can be as dynamic as any male. This isn‘t your grandfather’s evolutionary biology. It’s more inclusive, truer to life, and, simply, more fun.
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Cooke, L. (2022). Bitch: on the female of the species. First US edition. New York, Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cooke, Lucy, 1970-. 2022. Bitch: On the Female of the Species. New York, Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cooke, Lucy, 1970-, Bitch: On the Female of the Species. New York, Basic Books, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cooke, Lucy. Bitch: On the Female of the Species. First US edition. New York, Basic Books, 2022.
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| 300 | |a xxi, 369 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers"--Title page verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-352) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- The anarchy of sex -- The mysteries of mate choice -- The monogamy myth -- Fifty ways to eat your lover -- Love is a battlefield -- Madonna no more -- Bitch eat bitch -- Primate politics -- Matriarchs and menopause -- Sisters are doing it for themselves -- Beyond the binary -- Conclusion : a natural world without prejudice. | |
| 520 | |a Humans are locked in a battle over sex and gender: one side argues that evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool that shouldn't matter at all. Rewriting the science of evolution and sex, she shows how feminist biologists have uncovered nature's dizzying diversity of bodies, brains and behavior that evolution has created. With a new perspective on the female animal of a variety of species, Cooke reveals a new understanding of what being female can mean, and how evolution itself can work. -- adapted from jacket. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Social behavior in animals. | |
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