In the run-up to its much anticipated US publication, BITCH by Lucy Cooke continues to garner critical praise. Reviewer Dana Dunham for Scientific American writes: “In this effervescent exposé, British zoologist Lucy Cooke documents the ‘scientific phallocracy’ that has warped our perceptions of biological sex in the animal kingdom…Her playful, enlightening tour of the vanguard of evolutionary biology not only highlights animals that disrupt our assumptions about biological sex and its ‘natural’ behaviors…it also celebrates the underappreciated scholars whose research is shifting this reductive paradigm.” Meanwhile, the book was featured on must-read lists for June from The Los Angeles Times and AV Club, the latter of which praises it as a “delightful, revelatory survey of cross-species sexism.” Basic Books will publish the book on June 14, 2022.