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<p><P>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 reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur's story&#151;the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm&#151;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.<P>Laqueur begins with the question of why, in the late eighteenth century, woman's orgasm came to be regarded as irrelevant to conception, and he then proceeds to retrace the dramatic changes in Western views of sexual characteristics over two millennia. Along the way, two "masterplots" emerge. In the one-sex story, woman is an imperfect version of man, and her anatomy and physiology are construed accordingly&#58; the vagina is seen as an interior penis, the womb as a scrotum, the ovaries as testicles. The body is thus a representation, not the foundation, of social gender. The second plot tends to dominate post-Enlightenment thinking while the one-sex mod

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Author

Thomas Walter Laqueur

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674543492

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Gender Studies

Rating

3.91 / 5 (469 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14