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The title, Women: Biology, Culture and Literature, captures one's interest with the expectation that the author will provide a theoretical exegesis on Women: Biology and Culture and on Women in Literature. Howard Schwartz reports that the Christine Blasey Ford-Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearings precipitated his interest in women and culture and provided the impetus for this book. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's eighty-fifth birthday, which occurred at the time of the Blasey Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, resulted in a comparison of these two successful women. He implicitly attributed cultural change to the difference in the treatment of U.S. women through time. In contrast to the first part, which focuses on the United States, the second part, Women in Literature, portrays women from seven different cultures, including in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, in the author's essay “Counterlives.” This review will discuss expectations of the excellent title, evaluate the book as a portrayal of the author's interests, summarize the contents, and classify the book as a view of the author's interests.