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Genre/Form: | Student Collection History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Laqueur, Thomas Walter. Making sex. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990 (OCoLC)654243921 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Walter Laqueur |
ISBN: | 0674543491 9780674543492 0674543556 9780674543553 |
OCLC Number: | 21375348 |
Description: | x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Of language and the flesh -- Destiny is anatomy -- New science, one flesh -- Representing sex -- Discovery of the sexes -- Sex socialized. |
Responsibility: | Thomas Laqueur. |
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[In this] challenging analysis of our ideas on gender...Laqueur shows how radically our consciousness of ourselves, our bodies, our sex has changed over the centuries. The categories we think of as most basic turn out to be mutable...And in this transformation, Laqueur emphasises, social changes were as crucial as medical teachings. �"Making Sex" is� a brilliant documentation of difference between the one-sex and two-sex models...presenting a simple theme with broad and cascading implications...I didn't need Laqueur to teach me that sex was interesting, but now I have a broader base for this greatest of certainties. -- Stephen Jay Gould "New York Review of Books" �In this� challenging analysis of our ideas on gender...Laqueur shows how radically our consciousness of ourselves, our bodies, our sex has changed over the centuries. The categories we think of as most basic turn out to be mutable...And in this transformation, Laqueur emphasises, social changes were as crucial as medical teachings. -- Roy Porter "The Independent" �Laqueur� gives us an excellent sense of how our predecessors, including physicians and scientists, thought about the anatomy that fascinates every schoolchild...No one can doubt, after reading this book, that our notions of masculinity or femininity have been imposed on what are supposed to be objective biological observations. -- Melvin Konner "New York Times Book Review" Read more...


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