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- Bitch : on the female of the species / by Cooke, Lucy,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while leaving a long-suffering wife to clean up his mess. You can find the idea in comedians' routines, inane self-help books, and any number of movies, novels, and television shows. It almost all comes from evolutionary biology and psychology, and the tale boils down to this: Females are naturally submissive, passive, and maternal, while males are necessarily dominant, competitive, and promiscuous. And as Lucy Cooke shows in Bitch, it's almost completely wrong. In its place, Cooke offers a new vision of the female sex: depending on which one you choose, you can find females that are inherently as promiscuous, competitive, strategically cooperative, ardent, aggressive, dominant, dynamic, complex and variable as evolutionary psychology's stereotypical male. So how did the idea of the passive female get so entrenched? Tracing biology from Darwin to today, Cooke shows how the men behind breakthrough theories in evolution have infused their ideas with a massive dose of societal sexism. Cooke surfs the work of two generations of feminist evolutionary biologists, showing how they've pushed back against the blinkered views of evolution's founding fathers to reveal the true diversity of nature. She meets with pioneering scientists--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Jeanne Altmann, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard, Patricia Gowaty and more--following their work around the globe. From the dominant female lemurs of Madagascar to same-sex female albatross couples in Hawaii to female killer whale elders in the Salish sea, Cooke takes us on a journey through a side of nature that's much less binary, less heterosexual, and less sexist than we have been led to expect. Fierce, funny, and revolutionary, Bitch is a scientific manifesto that shows us an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a female animal, with serious implications for all of us today"--- Subjects: Females; Psychology, Comparative.; Sexual behavior in animals.; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Social behavior in animals.; Women.; Women;
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- Grumpy monkey / by Lang, Suzanne.; Lang, Max,1982-;
Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.LSC- Subjects: Chimpanzees; Jungle animals; Mood (Psychology); Friendship;
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- Grumpy Monkey's little book of grumpiness / by Lang, Suzanne.; Lang, Max,1982-;
In this call-and-response board book Jim Panzee decides that all he really needs is a friend.LSC- Subjects: Mood (Psychology); Chimpanzees; Animals; Friendship;
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- Still a gorilla! / by Norman, Kim.; Geran, Chad.;
Willy the Gorilla imitates the other animals at the zoo, but despite pretending he remains always a gorilla.LSC- Subjects: Gorilla; Zoo animals; Identity (Psychology); Self-acceptance;
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- Hooray for hat! / by Won, Brian.;
Elephant wakes up in a grumpy mood, but a present on his doorstep--a hat--cheers him and he sets out to greet his neighbors who all, it seems, need hats of their own.LSC- Subjects: Elephants; Animals; Mood (Psychology); Hats; Gifts;
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- The pout-pout fish / by Diesen, Deborah.; Hanna, Dan.;
The pout-pout fish believes he only knows how to frown, even though many of his friends suggest ways to change his expression, until one day a fish comes along that shows him otherwise.- Subjects: Picture books.; Stories in rhyme.; Fishes; Marine animals; Friendship; Attitude (Psychology);
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- I'm a baked potato! / by Primavera, Elise.; Medina, Juana,1980-;
A small dog named Baked Potato is lost and searching for his lady owner, but neither the grumpy dog or the fox are helpful, and his strange name creates confusion--until owl explains that, whatever he is called, he is really a dog.LSC- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Dogs; Identity (Psychology); Names; Animals;
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- Valentine gross-out / by Lang, Suzanne.; Lang, Max,1982-;
Jim Panzee is very grumpy about Valentine's Day until his buddy Norman shows him that the holiday is for everyone.LSC- Subjects: Chimpanzees; Animals; Valentine's Day; Mood (Psychology);
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- Grumpy Bird / by Tankard, Jeremy.;
Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.LSC- Subjects: Mood (Psychology); Emotions; Birds; Animals;
- © 2007., Scholastic Press,
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- Grumpy Bird / by Tankard, Jeremy.;
Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.LSC- Subjects: Mood (Psychology); Emotions; Birds; Animals;
- © c2007., Scholastic Canada,
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