Making sex : body and gender from the Greeks to Freud

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dc.contributor.author	Laqueur, Thomas	-
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-22T05:55:04Z	-
dc.date.available	2019-02-22T05:55:04Z	-
dc.date.issued	2003	-
dc.identifier.isbn	0-674-54355-6	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46589	-
dc.description	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 manuals-in 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 suggestions on how it might be achieved. Orgasm was assumed to be a routine, more or less indispensable part of conception. This surprised me. Experience 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	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Harvard College	en_US
dc.subject	Sex differences-Social aspects-History	en_US
dc.title	Making sex : body and gender from the Greeks to Freud	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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