Queer Ducks and Other Animals, Eliot Schrefer
Queer Ducks and Other Animals, Eliot Schrefer
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Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)
The Natural World of Animal Sexuality

Author: Eliot Schrefer

Narrator: Joel Froomkin, Dustin Ballard, Hope Newhouse, Neo Cihi

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 05/24/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

This groundbreaking YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and teen-friendly exploration of the gamut of queer behaviors observed in animals.A quiet revolution has been underway in recent years, with study after study revealing substantial same-sex sexual behavior in animals. Join celebrated author Eliot Schrefer on an exploration of queer behavior in the animal world—from albatrosses to bonobos to clownfish to doodlebugs.In sharp and witty prose Schrefer uses science, history, anthropology, and sociology to illustrate the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world. Interviews with researchers in the field offer additional insights for readers and aspiring scientists.Queer behavior in animals is as diverse and complex—and as natural—as it is in our own species. It doesn’t set us apart from animals—it bonds us even closer to our animal selves.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Eliot Schrefer

Eliot Schrefer is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for kids and teens, including The Darkness Outside Us and its sequel, The Brightness Between Us, as well as Charming Young Man, Endangered, and Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. His books have twice been named finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and have garnered a Printz Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and the Green Earth Book Award. He is on the faculty of the creative writing MFA programs at Hamline University and Fairleigh Dickinson University and lives with his husband in New York City. Visit him online at eliotschrefer.com. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eliot on November 23, 2021

[5 stars but I might be biased.] Dear Reader, I was eleven years old when I realized I was gay. It felt like some foreign thing had risen up inside of me, and I didn’t know what to make of it. The sum of the discourse around gayness in my sixth grade was “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” That......more

Goodreads review by Erin Entrada on June 22, 2022

An incredible, important book. The prose is accessible, but never pandering or patronizing. Lots of humor and LOLs. Smart and clever. Proof that there is nothing “unnatural” and non-hetero attraction—if anything, the opposite. Highly recommend!......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on April 25, 2024

This was fantastic fun, and I learned a bunch while reading it. Very similar to my experience reading Bitch last year, except geared towards a young adult audience. Absolutely recommended for everyone, though, because it completely overturns some very basic assumptions that patriarchal society takes......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on February 11, 2023

My favorite kind of nonfiction: a nice mix of fascinating facts and humor! The doodlebug puns in the very first chapter had me howling! I mean, the other name for that insect is the cockchafer. He could have gone with cockchafer . . . but somehow it was so much funnier that he called them doodles. A......more

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