Thomas W. Laqueur
Thomas W. Laqueur | |
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| Born | Thomas Walter Laqueur September 6, 1945 |
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| Fields | History, Sexology |
Thomas W. Laqueur (born 1945) is an American historian, sexologist and writer.
He is the author of Solitary Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award,[1] and is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California.
Career
One-sex model
Laqueur wrote that there was an ancient "one-sex model", in which the woman was only described as imperfect man / human and he postulates that definitions of sex/gender were historically different and changeable.[2]
This argument has been challenged by some historians of science, notably Katharine Park and Robert A. Nye;[3] Monica Green,[4] and Heinz-Jürgen Voss,[5] who reject the suggestion that ancient descriptions show a homogenous model, the one-sex model which then mutated in the 18th century to a two-sex model. They encourage a more differentiated perception that makes clear that gender theories of natural philosophy as well as biology and medicine, are embedded and constructed in certain social contexts.
Bibliography
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- Laqueur, Thomas (1976). Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780–1850. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01859-2.
- "The Queen Caroline Affair: Politics as Art in the Reign of George IV," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 54, No. 3, September 1982
- Gallagher, Catherine; Laqueur, Thomas (1987). The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05960-3.
- Laqueur, Thomas (1990). Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54349-1.
- Laqueur, Thomas (2003). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. Zone Books. ISBN 1-890951-32-3.
- Laqueur, Thomas W. (November 15, 2004). "Come Again? – A History of the Orgasm Completely Misses the Point". Slate. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
See also
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References
- ^ Database (n.d.). "Thomas W. Laqueur". MIT Press. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ Laqueur, Thomas (1990). Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54349-1. 25-63.
- ^ Park, Katharine; Nye, Robert A. (1991). "Destiny Is Anatomy, Review of Laqueurs Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud". The New Republic. 18. S. 53-57.
- ^ Green, Monica (2010). "Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference" in Linda Kalof, ed., A Cultural History of the Human Body, Vol. 2: In the Medieval Age. New York City: Berg Publishers.
- ^ Voss, Heinz-Jürgen (2010): Making Sex Revisited: Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive. Transcript, Bielefeld.
External links
- Database (undated). "Thomas W. Laqueur". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
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