Glorious ... A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology ... Full of marvellous surprises. Guardian A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite pa rts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...' Observer One passage in particular caught my eye, with regard to rules in the family household. If you’re planning on getting a dog (in this passage, it really doesn’t matter if it’s a dog or a bitch), you’ll want every member of the household to agree to pre-approved rules for the dog’s behaviour. But this… Mr Darwin, your time is up... This is the evolutionary reboot us bitches have been waiting for.' - Sue Perkins Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.'- Professor Alice Roberts

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P 39, House Rules, Chapter Three, Educating Your Bitch, Book of the Bitch by J. M. Evans and Kay White Jim Evans is a highly experienced vet, who has specialised in the care of dogs. He has been a Captain with the Army Dog Training School in Germany, and worked with many companies in the pet care industry. He has written numerous scientific papers and has travelled worldwide on lecture tours. 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 Bitch is so full of marvellous surprises about sex roles that I sensed Cooke herself was transformed in its writing An] effervescent expos é ... [A] playful, enlightening tour of the vanguard of evolutionary biology.' Scientific American

The bitches in Bitchoverturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour.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. The bitches in BITCH overturn 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. Josie Glausiusz is a science journalist who writes for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic and the BBC. Technically, for me, this falls somewhere between three and four stars, so I’ve rounded my rating up.

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. Kay White is a journalist and prolific author who actively supports an overall educational initiative directed at improving pet care.

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. Now, I should qualify this right from the get-go. I live with a canine behaviourist, therefore, I have something of an advantage when it comes to all things dog because I can just call through any questions I have and, bish-bash-bosh, a good hour of explanations and a new to-be-read list. 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.In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species. Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically. Zoologist Lucy Cooke's hilarious and enlightening book reclaims evolutionary biology for females of all species.' New Statesman

Bitch is so full of marvellous surprises about sex roles that I sensed Cooke herself was transformed in its writing. Studying zoology at university, she writes, made her feel like “a sad misfit”, an “egg-maker ... doomed to play second fiddle to the sperm-shooters”. But after three years of delving into the dizzy variability of female roles, she feels liberated. Much of the distorted science she had been taught was shaped by the values of a certain kind of man. To change that, she insists, we need more diverse scientists: “a mixture of sexes, sexualities, genders, skin colours, classes, cultures, abilities and ages”. Only then, it seems, will we be able to see the female experience in nature for what it is: “variable, highly plastic”, and refusing “to conform to archaic classifications”. A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinating.' BBC R4 Woman's Hour

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