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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... specific to women alone . Some of these changes might be understood as the results of scientific progress — menstruation is not the same thing as hemorrhoidal bleed- ing — but the chronology of discoveries did not line up with reconcep ...
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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 |