num_pages: 400
description: A fierce funny and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdomStudying 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 isnt your grandfathers evolutionary biology. Its more inclusive truer to life and simply more fun.
language: English
title: Bitch: On the Female of the Species
publisher: Basic Books