Bibliograph

Bitch, on the female of the species, Lucy Cooke

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Bitch, on the female of the species, Lucy Cooke

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-352) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bitch

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1322488372

Responsibility statement

Lucy Cooke

Sub title

on the female of the species

Summary

A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interestingHumans 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

Table Of Contents

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

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On the female of the speciesFemale of the species

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