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The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Engelsk
Bogcover for The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence af Helen King, 9781138247628
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781138247628
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1138247626
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 sep 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,6 x 23,3 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
9 sep 2016
Forfatter(e):

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

Engelsk
Paperback 2016
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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. Agnodike, the ''first midwife'' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women''s roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781138247628
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1138247626
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 sep 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,6 x 23,3 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
9 sep 2016
Forfatter(e):
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