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 Credits Index
Thomas Laqueur is Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
[Making Sex is] a brilliant documentation of difference between the
one-sex and two-sex models…presenting a simple theme with broad and
cascading implications… I didn’t need Laqueur to teach me that sex
was interesting, but now I have a broader base for this greatest of
certainties.
*New York Review of Books*
[Laqueur] gives us an excellent sense of how our predecessors,
including physicians and scientists, thought about the anatomy that
fascinates every schoolchild… No one can doubt, after reading this
book, that our notions of masculinity or femininity have been
imposed on what are supposed to be objective biological
observations.
*New York Times Book Review*
[In this] challenging analysis of our ideas on gender…Laqueur shows
how radically our consciousness of ourselves, our bodies, our sex
has changed over the centuries. The categories we think of as most
basic turn out to be mutable… And in this transformation, Laqueur
emphasises, social changes were as crucial as medical
teachings.
*The Independent*
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