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Author : Dawn Currie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773573758
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.
Author : Dawn H. Currie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0886291569
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : UVA:X002714519
Author : Thomas Laqueur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674255111
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.
Author : Maurizio Calbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134282357
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.
Author : Mel Reiff Hill,Jay Mays,Robin Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 0991338006
A fun, colorful, community-based resource that illustrates the beautiful diversity of gender - a gender 101 for everyone!
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004482498
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.
Author : Marta V. Vicente
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107159556
This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309132975
It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.
Author : Katharine Park
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015066750723
Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.
Author : Roland Frederick Becker,James Walter Wilson,John A. Gehweiler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : UCSD:31822018634519
Author : Joseph Maclise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : BSB:BSB11200005
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679724513
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.
Author : Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0465047912
Author : Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541672901
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 argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.