Adam Mars-Jones on Biological Exuberance
Adam chooses Bruce Bagemihl's book about the sexuality of animals, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity.
Adam Mars Jones is an author whose books include Pilcrow, Cedilla and Kid Gloves: A Voyage Around My Father
Queer Icons is a series in which LGBTQ guests champion artworks which are special to them. For many more Icons head to Radio 4 Front Row's Queer Icons webpage.
This interview was broadcast on Radio 3's Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking presented by Shahidha Bari.
The episode also features a longer discussion about how philosopher/writers including Jeremy Bentham, Rousseau, Foucault, Freud and Barthes speak of love. Taking part in this are literary theorist Martin McQuillan, and writer, Katherine Angel author of Unmastered : A Book on Desire Most Difficult to Tell.
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