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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
- T. Laqueur
- Art
- 15 October 1990
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…
:A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
- T. Laqueur
- History
- 1 December 2001
John Tosh's book is a signal event. It celebrates the full coming of age of the history of masculinity as a recognised academic sub-discipline. If Davidoff and Hall laid the foundations in this…
CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War
- T. Laqueur
- History
- 31 December 1994
Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology
- T. Laqueur
- ArtThe Body
- 1 April 1986
SOMETIME IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY human sexual nature changed, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf. This essay gives an account of the radical eighteenth-century reconstitution of female, and more…
The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in England 1500‐1850
- T. Laqueur
- History, Economics
- 1976
For all its maypoles and rough music, its bear baitings and St. Monday drunks, its ancient feasts and more ancient folkways, the popular culture of seventeenth and eighteenth century England was…
INTRODUCTION GENDER AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION
- R. Warne, T. Laqueur
- Sociology
- 2002
Ascribing genderthe distinction or humans into "women" dnel "men" -is an ancient and ubiquitous practice. While there arc culturf'S in which gcnder aSCliption is weak, there arc no known cultures…
Sex in the Flesh
- T. Laqueur
- HistoryIsis
- 1 June 2003
This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the “one‐sex model.” There are…
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
- T. Laqueur
- Art
- 13 October 2015
As the best preserved secret of this world, death has always been a good choice for (re) thinking and writing (both for the sake of education and self-maturing). The problem of trying to shape one’s…
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
- T. Laqueur
- History
- 27 January 2003
At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most universal one is…
Bodies, death, and pauper funerals.
- T. Laqueur
- HistoryRepresentations
- 1 February 1983
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