Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudHarvard University Press, 1 févr. 1992 - 336 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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... Experience must have shown that pregnancy often takes place without it; moreover, as a nineteenth-century historian I was accustomed to doctors debating whether women had orgasms at all. By the period I knew best, what had been an ...
... experience of the flesh,” which itself is “constituted from and around certain forms of behavior.” These forms, in turn, exist in relation to historically specifiable systems of knowledge, rules of what is or is not natural, and to what ...
... experience mirrored the metaphysical reality on which , it was thought , the social order rested . The new biology , with its search for fundamental differences between the sexes , of which the tortured ques- tioning of the very ...
... experience of the flesh , " which itself is " constituted from and around certain forms of behavior . " These forms , in turn , exist in relation to historically specifiable systems of knowledge , rules of what is or is not natural ...
... experience in the body . Some might argue that this is as it should be , and that a man has nothing of great interest or authenticity to say about the sexual female body as it feels and loves . But more generally I have found it ...
Table des matières
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21 | |
New Science One Flesh | 59 |
Representing Sex | 110 |
Discovery of the Sexes | 145 |
Sex Socialized | 189 |
Notes | 241 |
Credits | 299 |
Index | 301 |