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Bitch : on the female of the species / Lucy Cooke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First US editionDescription: xxi, 369 pages : illustration ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541674899
  • 1541674898
Other title:
  • Female of the species
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 591.56 23/eng/20220526
LOC classification:
  • QL775 .C66 2022b
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.
Summary: 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
Holdings
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New Books New Books Genesee Community Library (Latah Library District) New Book Shelves Non-Fiction 591.56 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 In transit from Potlatch Community Library (Latah Library District) to Genesee Community Library (Latah Library District) since 05/13/2024 31853021007070
Book Book Lewiston City Library Z-2nd Floor Adult Non-Fiction SCIENCE SCIENCE LIFE EVOLUTION Cooke (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31853020976077
Total holds: 0

"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-352) and index.

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.

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