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100 1 Laqueur, Thomas Walter.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n86133563
245 10 Making sex :|bbody and gender from the Greeks to Freud /
|cThomas Laqueur.
246 30 Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud
250 1st Harvard pbk. ed.
264 1 Cambridge, Mass. :|bHarvard University Press,|c1992.
264 4 |c©1990
300 x, 313 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 245-
301) and index.
505 0 1. Of Language and the Flesh -- 2. Destiny Is Anatomy --
3. New Science, One Flesh -- 4. Representing Sex -- 5.
Discovery of the Sexes -- 6. Sex Socialized.
520 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. Laqueur begins with the
question of why, in the late eighteenth century, woman's
orgasm came to be regarded as irrelevant to conception,
and he then proceeds to retrace the dramatic changes in
Western views of sexual characteristics over two
millennia. Along the way, two master plots emerge. In the
one-sex story, woman is an imperfect version of man, and
her anatomy and physiology are construed accordingly: the
vagina is seen as an interior penis, the womb as a scrotum,
the ovaries as testicles. The body is thus a
representation, not the foundation, of social gender. The
second plot tends to dominate post-Enlightenment thinking
while the one-sex model is firmly rooted in classical
learning. The two-sex story says that the body determines
gender differences, that woman is the opposite of man with
incommensurably different organs, functions, and feelings.
650 0 Sex role|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
subjects/sh2010112818
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650 0 Sex differences (Psychology)|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/subjects/sh85120581|xSocial aspects|0https://
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650 0 Sex (Psychology)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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650 7 Sex role.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114598
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