Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudHarvard University Press, 1992 - 313 pages This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur’s story—the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm—but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe. |
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... the body and society in late antiquity . ) At first the question of disappearing orgasm was the focus of my research , and what follows still bears some marks of its origins in that preoccupation . But gradually the summa voluptas.
... follows from undisputed facts about bodies . I discov- ered early on that the erasure of female pleasure from medical accounts of conception took place roughly at the same time as the female body came to be understood no longer as a ...
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Table des matières
Of Language and the Flesh | xi |
Destiny Is Anatomy | 21 |
New Science One Flesh | 59 |
Representing Sex | 110 |
Discovery of the Sexes | 145 |
Sex Socialized | 189 |
Notes | 241 |
Credits | 299 |
Index | 301 |