Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

Name: Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
Author: Thomas Laqueur
ISBN: 9780674543553

Author Thomas Laqueur

Publisher Harvard University Press

Category Psychology

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Author(s)Thomas Laqueur

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN / ASIN0674543556

ISBN-139780674543553

CategoryPsychology

MarketplaceCanada 🇨🇦

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Making Sex 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. It looks at how our predecessors thought about anatomy and analyzes our ideas on gender. Full description