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In the past I have shrugged away my irritation and told him to clean the wax out of his ears and suggested a good ENT. These questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user’s manual for the female mammal. In her thoughtful debut, Eve, legal scholar Claire Horn examines the boundaries of motherhood through an unusual lens: artificial wombs . Being sexed permeates every major feature of our mammalian bodies and the lives we live inside them, for mouse and human alike. All of it fascinating and written in a style a layperson can understand, but certainly overwhelming at times - thank goodness for discrete chapters which can be picked up at.

Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Finally the author looks at how medical science has not been testing anything much on women - for good reasons of course, mostly around childbearing - and many objects were not designed with women in mind. So, God said, Let there be firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters!

In this interrogative and fascinating story of modern birth, Eve imagines with eye-opening clarity what all this might mean for the future of humanity.

Among species such as mallards where rape is common, the male duck’s “corkscrew” penis forces entry while the female’s “long, winding vagina will close off, trapping unwanted sperm in a side tunnel”. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. The author goes through various features and traces their lineage, features such as breasts, pregnancy, tool use, language and voice. It just doesn't work that way—we have certain genetics and if those tiny blueprints give us an advantage, our offspring may proliferate more than those of our neighbours (or not). For a start, we might want to acknowledge that human brains are something that are made primarily out of women’s bodies: first in their wombs, and then from their breast milk, and then from the quality of interactions mothers have with their children.Her work over the last six years has focused on law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and technologies. Eleanor Shearer, author of RIVER SING ME HOME The Book of Eve completely captured me with its intricately and delicately woven world, filled with strange and entrancing magic. For far too long, the world has told the story of human history through the male body (though perhaps not the disabled male body). A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center .

Evolution, as Bohannon emphasises, doesn’t care about our contemporary preferences or sensitivities. This radical essay explores patriarchy and capitalism’s impact on beauty ideals, and inspires us to embrace our own disobedient bodies.

Eve is interested in the origins of such questions, plumbing the depths of what’s different – for better and for worse – about the female body.

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