Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and "Making Sex" tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. The reader cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story - the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm - but the reader will be amazed at...(展开全部)

In the mysterious leap from the body to the mind, and vice versa, psychoanalytic writing encounters the same problem that is at the very heart of the conscious/unconscious dichotomy. This dilemma enters into all attempts to describe what supposedly happens along the interface between the two divergent registers at the moment of change from one to the other. Monique David-Ménard...(展开全部)

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995 Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature—one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages,...(展开全部)

This book gives access to a richer and more extensive intellectual past than is common in many jurisprudence textbooks. As is intended ... it will expand the readers sense of the diversity of the past, of the struggle of some of the worlds greatest minds to make sense of the human condition in their times ... The book is a powerful confirmation that legal and political theory c...(展开全部)

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argu...(展开全部)

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'. Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.