Bitch, Lucy Cooke
Bitch, Lucy Cooke
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Bitch
On the Female of the Species

Author: Lucy Cooke

Narrator: Lucy Cooke

Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/14/2022

Synopsis

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom  Studying 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 isn‘t your grandfather’s evolutionary biology. It’s more inclusive, truer to life, and, simply, more fun. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by ~Sofia~ on June 12, 2019

The Bitch is one of the shorter novels from Collins, however this does not mean it is lacking in any way. This novel has all the ingredients that make a Jackie Collins book a Jackie Collins book. I actually really enjoyed this one, I think so more than the Stud which is technically the first in a du......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on May 13, 2011

wow! what a piece of shit. if you like bad books like i do, you'll completely enjoy this trash!!!......more

Goodreads review by Hazeanni on February 03, 2022

It's my mission this year to read at least one book by authors, that I had enjoyed myself in past years. Jackie Collins is one of those. Not everyone prepared to admit they read her books I believe, for its quiet scandalous and salacious contents. The Bitch had all the hallmarks that made her book a......more

Goodreads review by Raimondo on March 30, 2022

This is the sequel to The Stud, which I also read and reviewed earlier. While it chronicles the events a year after Fontaine's spectacular fall out with her previously uxorious billionaire husband, it doesn't require the latter to present a coherent story. It can stand on its own, although some intr......more

Goodreads review by Craig and Phil on December 07, 2024

With a bonkbuster Christmas party coming up I raided the shelves and found one I could read and talk about. Firstly the bright red cover was seductive and festive. Secondly the title sums up the genre well. Slide back in time where strong women with money, attitude and fabulosity dominate the pages a......more

Quotes

“Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology. Prepare to learn a lot — and laugh out loud. A beautifully written, very funny and deeply important book.”
 —Alice Roberts, author of Evolution

“Fun, informative and revolutionary all at once, Bitch should be required reading in school. After reading this book one will never look at an orca, an albatross, or a human the same way again. And the world will be better for it.”
 —Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton University and author of The Creative Spark

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