Thomas Laqueur

History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.

Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

Making Sex

Catherine Gallagher

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies and means of control, and incorporated into different rhythms of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. The eight articles in this volume support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. They belong to a new historical endeavor that derives partly from the crossing of historical with anthropological investigations, partly from social historians' deepening interest in culture, partly from the thematization of the body in modern philosophy (especially phenomenology), and partly from the emphasis on gender, sexuality, and women's history that large numbers of feminist scholars have brought to all disciplines.

Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century

The Making of the Modern Body

Susan Brownell

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

A Reader

Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities

Thomas Walter Laqueur

Discusses the worldly views of masturbation as transforming from an act of little concern in the ancient world to one of sinfulness and embarrassment in the twentieth century.

A Cultural History of Masturbation

Solitary Sex

cuerpo y género desde los griegos hasta Freud

La construcción del sexo

Thomas Laqueur

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