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The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence

King, Helen 1957- (author.).

Summary: By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

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ISBN: 9781409463368
ISBN: 1409463362
ISBN: 9781409463375
ISBN: 1409463370
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction: Making Sense of Making Sex; Part I: Revisiting the Classics; 1 Making Sex and the Classical World; 2 Picturing the Womb: Vesalius and the Sixteenth Century; Part II: Phaethousa; 3 Phaethousa: Gender and Genre; 4 Phaethousa and Sex Change in Early Modern Europe; Part III: Agnodice; 5 Agnodice: Gender and Genre; 6 Educating Agnodice; 7 Agnodice's First Patient; 8 Agnodice in Parts; Appendix: Agnodice in Latin and in Selected English Translations; Bibliography; Index.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.