Thomas W. Laqueur
Thomas W. Laqueur is an American sexologist and 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. Laqueur is the winner of the Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award,[1] and is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. A full list of his publications can be seen on his university profile.
One-Sex-Model
Thomas Laqueur wrote that there was an ancient "one sex model", in which the woman was only described as imperfect man / human and he show that definitions of sex/gender were historical different and changeable. This argument has been challenged by some historians of science, notably Katharine Park and Robert A. Nye (1991)[2], Monica Green (2010)[3] and H.-J. Voss (2010)[4], who reject the suggestion that ancient descriptions show a homogenous model, the "One-Sex Model" which then mutated in the eighteenth 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
- Laqueur, Thomas (1976), Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300018592
- Gallagher, Catherine; Laqueur, Thomas (1987), The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, ISBN 0520059603
- Laqueur, Thomas (1990), Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674543491
- Laqueur, Thomas (2003), Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation, Zone Books, ISBN 1890951323
References
- ^ "bio". http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=17347. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ^ Park, K., Nye, R. A. Destiny is Anatomy, Review of Laqueurs Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. The New Republic 18 (1991), S. 53-57
- ^ Monica Green, “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: Berg, 2010)
- ^ Voss, H.-J. (2010): Making Sex Revisited: Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive. Transcript, Bielefeld.
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