Animal Crackers
Michael Neve, 22 May 1986
Sexual Selection and Animal Genitalia
by William Eberhard.
Harvard, 244 pp., £21.25, January 1986,0 674 80283 7 Show More
by William Eberhard.
Harvard, 244 pp., £21.25, January 1986,
Females of the Species
by Bettyann Kevles.
Harvard, 270 pp., £16.95, May 1986,0 674 29865 9 Show More
by Bettyann Kevles.
Harvard, 270 pp., £16.95, May 1986,
A Concise History of the Sex Manual
by Alan Rusbridger and Posy Simmonds.
Faber, 204 pp., £10.95, April 1986,0 571 13519 6 Show More
by Alan Rusbridger and Posy Simmonds.
Faber, 204 pp., £10.95, April 1986,
“... prurience. This makes Rusbridger’s non-event of a book easily forgotten. In the case of William Eberhard and Bettyann Kevles, the sense of linguistic imprisonment is more important, raises much more interesting questions. For what their books are about, as against how they talk about it, matters. And particularly in ... ”