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Rozkoš mezi pohlavími
Author: Thomas Laqueur
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Ideas about the sexed body have a history of their own. Thomas Laqueur examines how distinctions between men and women developed in medical, philosophical, and cultural texts. His distinction between one-sex and two-sex models provides a framework for reading historical ideas about sexuality.
This Czech-language e-book presents the work originally titled Making Sex. Its analyses range from antiquity through the Renaissance to the period after the Enlightenment. It will interest readers of gender and intellectual history who want to explore the relationship between biological knowledge and cultural meaning. Historical models are examined within the contexts of their own times.
Laqueur’s book examines how ideas about sex took shape historically. It reads medical and cultural texts in relation to models of gender.
Book information
- Author
- Thomas Laqueur
- Publisher
- Karolinum
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- Rodové dejiny
- ISBN
- 978-80-246-3471-5
- Publication date
- 1. January 2018
- Pages
- 356
- Edition
- Limes
- E-book formats
- PDF (ISBN 978-80-246-3525-5)
What is Rozkoš mezi pohlavími about?
The author distinguishes between the idea of a single, hierarchically differentiated bodily model and the idea of fundamentally different sexed bodies. He traces these across different historical periods.
His material draws on medicine, philosophy, essays, and literature. The work invites reflection on how history has shaped categories regarded as natural.
Themes and motifs
The history of sex
Historical models of male and female bodies.
Science and culture
The relationship between medical interpretations and social ideas.
Gender categories
The cultural formation of differences and hierarchies.
Who is this book for?
Students of gender, cultural history, and intellectual history.
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What is Rozkoš mezi pohlavími about?
Laqueur’s book examines how ideas about sex took shape historically. It reads medical and cultural texts in relation to models of gender.
What language is the e-book in?
Czech.
Which formats does AudioSpace list?
PDF.
What length does the supplier list?
356 pages.
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