The Stronger Sex is out into the world and I couldn’t be more thrilled with the coverage I’ve gotten and continue to receive. Not only lots of great press, but so many heartfelt messages from readers have been arriving via email, direct message, and comments.
Thanks to my team at Basic Books and Seal Press for all their support. I will continue publishing and podcasting and speaking throughout the fall, but here’s all the incredible coverage so far:
The Stronger Sex is now available in:
US and Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
Coming soon to China and Korea.
The Stronger Sex is available for purchase at the Hachette website, Bookshop.org, your local bookstore, or wherever books are sold.
A myth-busting vindication of women’s physical strengths
Following a half decade of research into the newest science, Vartan shows in The Stronger Sex that women’s bodies are incredibly powerful, flexible, and resilient in ways men’s bodies aren’t. Tossing aside the narrow notion of a fully ripped man as the measure of strength, Vartan reveals the ways that women surpass men in endurance, flexibility, immunity, pain tolerance, and the ultimate test of any human body: longevity.
Vartan–a deadeye shot since her grandmother showed her how to aim a .22–debunks myth after myth like so many tin cans at two hundred yards and reveals why, if anyone wins in a battle of the sexes, it’s women.
In interviews with dozens of researchers from biology, anthropology, physiology, and sports science, plus in-depth conversations with runners, swimmers, wrestlers, woodchoppers, thru-hikers, firefighters, and more, The Stronger Sex squashes outdated ideas about women’s bodies. It’s a celebration of female strength that doesn’t argue “down with men” but “up with us all.”
ORDER “THE STRONGER SEX” at the Hachette website or Bookshop.org
Reviews
The Sunday Times (UK)
Library Journal (starred review = “highly recommended”)
Coverage
The Washington Post (this story was reprinted in the Seattle Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the New Zealand Times, Yahoo News, the Hindustan Times, the South Florida Reporter, and the Texarcana Gazette)
The Daily Mail (UK)
Stylist (UK)
Globe and Mail (Canada’s Largest Newspaper)
Haarf (national weekly Egyptian cultural magazine)
NRC (The Netherlands’ Paper of Record)
Podcasts & Radio
NPR (KVNF’s The Mountain Life): Unpacking the Hidden Strengths of Women’s Bodies
Brave New Girls: Are we the stronger sex and why does it matter? With science journalist and author Starre Vartan
Emerging Form: Starre Vartan on What It Really Means to Be Strong
Talk Nerdy: Starre Vartan on The Stronger Sex
Next Big Idea Club: The Stronger Sex? Science Says It’s Women
Starre Julia Vartan 
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