Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Making Sex Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and "Making Sex" tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. It looks at how our predecessors thought about anatomy and analyzes our ideas on gender.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 06 March 1992
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Gender Studies, Gender Groups | Sexual Behaviour
- ISBN 13: 9780674543553 ISBN 10: 0674543556
- Sales rank: 197,317
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Full description for Making Sex
Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and "Making Sex" tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. The reader cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story - the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm - but the reader will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every discipline. The book looks at how our predecessors, including physicians and scientists, thought about anatomy and analyzes our ideas on gender.
