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050 00 QL775|b.C66 2022
100 1 Cooke, Lucy,|d1970-|eauthor.
245 10 Bitch :|bon the female of the species /|cLucy Cooke.
250 First US edition.
264 1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2022.
300 xxi, 369 pages ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
386 English|aMotion picture directors|2lcdgt
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-352) and
index.
505 00 |tIntroduction --|tThe anarchy of sex --|tThe mysteries of
mate choice --|tThe monogamy myth --|tFifty ways to eat
your lover --|tLove is a battlefield --|tMadonna no more -
-|tBitch eat bitch --|tPrimate politics --|tMatriarchs and
menopause --|tSisters are doing it for themselves --
|tBeyond the binary --|gConclusion:|tA natural world
without prejudice.
520 "It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to
chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to
avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while
leaving a long-suffering wife to clean up his mess. You
can find the idea in comedians' routines, inane self-help
books, and any number of movies, novels, and television
shows. It almost all comes from evolutionary biology and
psychology, and the tale boils down to this: Females are
naturally submissive, passive, and maternal, while males
are necessarily dominant, competitive, and promiscuous.
And as Lucy Cooke shows in Bitch, it's almost completely
wrong. In its place, Cooke offers a new vision of the
female sex: depending on which one you choose, you can
find females that are inherently as promiscuous,
competitive, strategically cooperative, ardent, aggressive,
dominant, dynamic, complex and variable as evolutionary
psychology's stereotypical male. So how did the idea of
the passive female get so entrenched? Tracing biology from
Darwin to today, Cooke shows how the men behind
breakthrough theories in evolution have infused their
ideas with a massive dose of societal sexism. Cooke surfs
the work of two generations of feminist evolutionary
biologists, showing how they've pushed back against the
blinkered views of evolution's founding fathers to reveal
the true diversity of nature. She meets with pioneering
scientists--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Jeanne Altmann, Mary-Jane
West-Eberhard, Patricia Gowaty and more--following their
work around the globe. From the dominant female lemurs of
Madagascar to same-sex female albatross couples in Hawaii
to female killer whale elders in the Salish sea, Cooke
takes us on a journey through a side of nature that's much
less binary, less heterosexual, and less sexist than we
have been led to expect. Fierce, funny, and revolutionary,
Bitch is a scientific manifesto that shows us an entirely
new perspective on what it means to be a female animal,
with serious implications for all of us today"--|cProvided
by publisher.
650 0 Social behavior in animals|vPopular works.
650 0 Females|xEvolution|vPopular works.
650 0 Sexual behavior in animals|vPopular works.
650 0 Sex differences|vPopular works.
650 7 Gender identity.|2homoit
650 12 Women|xpsychology.
650 12 Psychology, Comparative.
650 12 Biological Evolution.
650 12 Sociobiology.
650 12 Social Behavior.
650 22 Sexual Behavior, Animal.
650 22 Sexual Selection.
650 22 Mating Preference, Animal.
655 7 Trivia and miscellanea.|2lcgft
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