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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... 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 lesser version of the male's (a one-sex model) but as its incommensurable opposite (a two-sex model) ...
... 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 lesser version of the male's ( a one- sex model ) but as its incommensurable opposite ( a two - sex ...
... pleasure and its at- tempted erasure has become instead the story of how sex , as much as gender , is made . A book that deals with so broad a range of time and materials as this one owes a multitude of debts . In the first place I ...
... pleasure was severely diminished by the discovery that she was pregnant and , moreover , could give no satisfactory account of how she had come to be that way . In their embarrassment , the inn- keepers consigned the daughter to a ...
... pleasure in them , nor conceive by them . " 6 The girl must have shuddered , just a bit . If not her rosy cheeks then the tremors of venereal orgasm would have given her away . Bruhier's story was thus one of fraud and not of apparent ...
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 |