This time focussing on masculinity

Sara Pascoe has signed a deal to write a follow-up to her acclaimed book Animal.

While Animal focussed on the female body, the new title, Sex Power Money, will ask questions about masculinity.

She will look at the evolutionary and biological background to male psychology and the contradictory messages that society  gives about what it means to be a man.

Publishers  Faber say: ‘Much like Pascoe’s Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, this book will be funny, enlightening and open-minded all at the same time.’

Pascoe said that during research for Animal, she found that many of the issues investigated were split not along gender lines but financial ones.

‘There is a direct correlation between vulnerability and poverty and I wanted to explore issues such as sex work and domestic violence not only as purely feminist issues,’ she said. 

‘I also wanted to balance my exploration of the female body with my new fascination for the male - which is equally mysterious, surprising, and occasionally shocking. Our prehistoric ape behaviours have to be at the front of our minds if we want to improve as a species: we have to understand where we came from.’

Laura Hassan, editorial director at Faber & Faber, said: 'Hallelujah for Sara Pascoe and her humour, exceptional braininess, and generous spirit of investigation that she brings to her books and her comedy. She takes on the big knotty stuff of life and makes sense of it all. This will be an essential and enlightening read.’

As  well as being a stand-up, Pascoe has adapted Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is to open at the Nottingham Playhouse in September.

 Sex Power Money will be published  in August next year.

Published: 26 Jul 2017