The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of Female Bodies is now available worldwide:
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, the Atlantic Books site (UK), Bookshop.org, Allen & Unwin (Australia), your local bookstore, or wherever books are sold.
And it’s in libraries across the planet too!
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with runners, swimmers, wrestlers, woodchoppers, thru-hikers, firefighters, and more, The Stronger Sex squashes outdated ideas about women’s bodies.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)
New Scientist (print and online)
Vodcasts, 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
Dr. Amythysta Herrick’s Vodcast: Sex, Gender, & Biochemistry
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
Women’s Running Stories: Starre Vartan, Her Athletic Journey, Her Book “The Stronger Sex”
Emory University: Health Storytelling Author Conversation with Maryn McKenna
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PREVIOUS BOOKS
Short Stories of Bainbridge Island, Volumes 1 & 2
I contributed a fictional story of a woman’s psychological struggle for independence called “The Gargantuan” to a collection focused around the island where I now live in Puget Sound. It’s featured in both editions of this book-of-stories.
The Eco-Chick Guide to Life
St. Martin’s (Macmillan) published my first book in September, 2008. It received a positive review from the New York Times.
You can order it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and brick and mortar bookstores both chain and independent. It’s also available for the Kindle (how eco-friendly!) and at libraries across the country.
Green Living
I authored a chapter in Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
Qamut Guide
I wrote the Barnes and Noble Quamut guide to Home Energy Efficiency
Starre Julia Vartan 