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Description edit
This is a book about the making an unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of the history of reproductive anatomy and physiology.
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First Sentence edit
An interpretive chasm separates two interpretations, fifty years apart, of the same story of death and desire told by an eighteenth-century physician obsessed with the problem of distinguishing real from apparent death.
Table of Contents edit
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
Notes
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Thomas Walter Laqueur (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 15, 1990
ISBN: 978-0674543492
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 15, 1990
ISBN: 978-0674543492
Page Count: 336
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HQ1075.L37 1990
- Dewey: 305.309
Subjects edit
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Sexuality › Human
- Books › History › Europe › Greece
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Gender Studies
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy › History of Science
- Books › History › World
- Books › Gay & Lesbian › History
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Sex
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