Making sex : body and gender from the Greeks to Freud
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
Print Book, English, 1990
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990
Student Collection
x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674543492, 9780674543553, 0674543491, 0674543556
21375348
Of language and the flesh
Destiny is anatomy
New science, one flesh
Representing sex
Discovery of the sexes
Sex socialized