| Title : | Making sex : body and gender from the Greeks to Freud | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Thomas Walter Laqueur, Author | | Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press | | Publication Date: | 1990 | | Pagination: | x, 313 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-54349-2 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical footnotes (p.[245]-301)
Includes index (p.[305]-147)
| | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Sex (Psychology)
Sex differences (Psychology) - Social aspects - History
Sex differences - Social aspects - History
Sex role - History
| | Class number: | 305.309 | | Abstract: | This book began without my knowing it in 1977 when I was on leave at St. Antony's College, Oxford, doing research for what was to be a history of the life cycle. I was reading seventeenth-century midwifery manualsin search of materials on how birth was organized but found instead advice to women on how to become pregnant in the first place. Midwives and doctors seemed to believe that female orgasm was among the conditions for successful generation, and they offered various sugges¬tions on how it might be achieved. Orgasm was assumed to be a routine, more or less indispensable part of conception. This surprised me. Expe¬rience must have shown that pregnancy often takes place without it; moreover, as a nineteenth-century historian I was accustomed to doctors debating whether women had orgasms at all. By the period I knew best, what had been an ordinary, if explosive, corporeal occurrence had become a major problem of moral physiology. My life-cycle project slowly slipped away. I got married; we had a child; I spent a year in medical school in 1981-1982. Precisely how these changes in my life allowed this book to take me over is still not entirely clear, but they did. (Its relevant intellectual origins are more obvious: a group of friends started Representations; I taught a graduate seminar on the body and the body social in nineteenth-century literature with Cath¬erine Gallagher; I encountered feminist literary and historical scholar¬ship; my almost daily companion in the rational recreation of drinking cappuccino, Peter Brown, was working on his book about the body and society in late antiquity. | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=7347 |
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