Making sex: body and gender from the Greeks to Freud
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674543556
ISBN 13
9780674543553
Category
Sex Differences
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
x, 313 pages
Subject
Sex role History. Sex differences Social aspects History. Sex (Psychology) History. Gender identity. Identification (Psychology)
Abstract
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.
Biblio Notes
Illustrations.
Number of Copies
1
