Thomas W. Laqueur
| Thomas W. Laqueur | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Walter Laqueur September 6, 1945 Istanbul |
| 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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- "The Queen Caroline Affair: Politics as Art in the Reign of George IV," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 54, No. 3, September 1982
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See also
References
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- Database (undated). "Thomas W. Laqueur". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- Works by or about Thomas W. Laqueur in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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- ↑ 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.
