Book of the Bitch

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Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically.

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In Book Of The Bitch, we dog owners can learn all there is to know about the health and hormonal issues which specifically affect the female of the canine species. From puberty to pregnancy and whelping, to diseases of the older dog, there is much to learn. And if that’s the stuff you’re looking for, then this is the classic. Some animals even glide through multiple switches in sex. The Caribbean chalk bass fish swaps sex up to 20 times pera day. The brain of the clownfish, or anemonefish, starts out as male, and becomes female – a change that may surprise fans of the Disney movie Finding Nemo. Belligerent female anemonefish defend territory while the male cares for their eggs. But if the female is, say, chomped by a barracuda, the male anemonefish will transform into the new dominant female. During transition, the fish has a female brain but male gonads. The bitches in Bitchoverturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke's brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution. Glorious ... A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology ... Full of marvellous surprises. Guardian

An] effervescent expos é ... [A] playful, enlightening tour of the vanguard of evolutionary biology.' Scientific American This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. To return faulty items see our Returning Faulty Items policy.

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Technically, for me, this falls somewhere between three and four stars, so I’ve rounded my rating up. Bitch is so full of marvellous surprises about sex roles that I sensed Cooke herself was transformed in its writing Selected for the Telegraph's 'best books for summer 2022' and as one of the Guardian's '50 hottest new books for a great escape'. Fun, informative and revolutionary all at once, Bitch should be required reading in school. This is a joyous, and often hilarious, romp in which Cooke simultaneously does justice to the actual data, gives voice to the substantive contributions of women scientists, and demolishes bias, blindness and ignorance about sex in the academy and in the public. After reading this book one will never look at a clownfish, a barnacle, an orca, an albatross or a human the same way again. And the world will be better for it.' - Augustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton University and author of The Creative Spark