Marlene Zuk, a respected biologist and a feminist, gives an eye-opening tour of some of the latest developments in our knowledge of animal sexuality and evolutionary biology. Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases.
Fascinating and persuasive. Zuk is not an idealogue, just an unusually clear-eyed scholar.
Ms. Zuk’s talent for identifying the self-serving use of animal stereotypes is not only rare but relevant.
Zuk takes the reader on a tour, and her message is an eloquent and important warning . . . .
[A] witty and provocative survey of sex in the animal kingdom.
[An] hilarious account of both the sex life of animals and our own attitudes to the beast with two backs.
