Anatomy Of Gender
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Anatomy Of Gender
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Author : Dawn Currie
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1992-02-15
Anatomy Of Gender written by Dawn Currie and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.
The Anatomy Of Gender
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Author : Dawn H. Currie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Anatomy Of Gender written by Dawn H. Currie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Making Sex
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Author : Thomas Laqueur
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992-02-01
Making Sex written by Thomas Laqueur and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-01 with Psychology categories.
This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur’s story—the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm—but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe. Laqueur begins with the question of why, in the late eighteenth century, woman’s orgasm came to be regarded as irrelevant to conception, and he then proceeds to retrace the dramatic changes in Western views of sexual characteristics over two millennia. Along the way, two “master plots” emerge. In the one-sex story, woman is an imperfect version of man, and her anatomy and physiology are construed accordingly: the vagina is seen as an interior penis, the womb as a scrotum, the ovaries as testicles. The body is thus a representation, not the foundation, of social gender. The second plot tends to dominate post-Enlightenment thinking while the one-sex model is firmly rooted in classical learning. The two-sex story says that the body determines gender differences, that woman is the opposite of man with incommensurably different organs, functions, and feelings. The two plots overlap; neither ever holds a monopoly. Science may establish many new facts, but even so, Laqueur argues, science was only providing a new way of speaking, a rhetoric and not a key to female liberation or to social progress. Making Sex ends with Freud, who denied the neurological evidence to insist that, as a girl becomes a woman, the locus of her sexual pleasure shifts from the clitoris to the vagina; she becomes what culture demands despite, not because of, the body. Turning Freud’s famous dictum around, Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice. This is a powerful story, written with verve and a keen sense of telling detail (be it technically rigorous or scabrously fanciful). Making Sex will stimulate thought, whether argument or surprised agreement, in a wide range of readers.
Approximate Bodies
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Author : Maurizio Calbi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-05-02
Approximate Bodies written by Maurizio Calbi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises. Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theorists including Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, these close textual readings examine the effects of social, psychic and cultural influences on early modern images of the body. Calbi identifies the ways in which political, social, racial and sexual power structures effect the construction of the body in dramatic and anatomical texts. Calbi's analysis displays how images such as the deformed body of the outsider, the effeminate body of the desiring male and the disfigured body parts of the desiring female indicate an unstable, incomplete conception of the body in the Renaissance. Compelling and impeccably researched, this is a sophisticated account of the fantasies and anxieties that play a role in constructing the early modern body. Approximate Bodies makes a major contribution to the field of early modern studies and to debates around the body.
Anatomy Of Female Power
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Author : Chinweizu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Anatomy Of Female Power written by Chinweizu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Interpersonal relations categories.
Secrets Of Women
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Author : Katharine Park
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2006-11
Secrets Of Women written by Katharine Park and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with Health & Fitness categories.
Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.
Myths Of Gender
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Author : Anne Fausto-Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1987-07-21
Myths Of Gender written by Anne Fausto-Sterling and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-07-21 with categories.
Destiny Is Anatomy
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Author : Katharine Park
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Destiny Is Anatomy written by Katharine Park and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
Debating Sex And Gender In Eighteenth Century Spain
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Author : Marta V. Vicente
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-05
Debating Sex And Gender In Eighteenth Century Spain written by Marta V. Vicente and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with History categories.
This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.
Complaints And Disorders
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1973
Complaints And Disorders written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Health & Fitness categories.
In this sequel to their underground bestseller Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Ehrenreich and English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing numerous 'treatments' and 'rest cures' perpetrated on women through the decades, they analyze the biomedical rationales used to justify sex discrimination.