About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. 1992-Paperback-Cover shows minor shelf wear. ---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992-02-01
ISBN-13:9780674543553ISBN:0674543556
Description: New. Brand New Paperback! Pristine unmarked pages, may have very slight warehouse wear, no remainder marks, still a great buy straight from book warehouse unread, sealed in plastic, exact artwork as listed, read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674543553ISBN:0674543556
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG++. Minor edge & corner wear. Binding firm & square. A clean, attractive copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. 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. read more
Description: Good. 0674543556 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"OK. I didn't really read the WHOLE book, but instead read the parts that I needed to...basically the early ideas up to the 17th century or so. While it was textbooky, it had a lot of good information. My favorite, by far, is the previous belief that women had to orgasm in order to get pregnant. C'mon - let's be realistic. If that was the case, we wouldn't have this population problem we have!
"A pivotal text in my study of sex and gender. Laquer does a deft and yet quite complicated task in chronicling the history of the one-sex and two-sex models, and I was forever changed in the way I think about what is a "man" or "woman.""
"I read this book for a class, and I used the main premise of the first section (that social importance shifted from gender to sex in about the 1600's) in countless papers in grad school (even though I was a music major! so there.). I really thought that was presented well, but in all honesty I should probably re-read the rest of the book, because I don't remember it well. All I remember is that he used a lot of large words that I didn't know and was unable to find in dictionaries."
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