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Thomas Walter Laqueur Books

    Thomas W. Laqueur is an American historian, sexologist, and writer whose work delves deeply into the cultural histories of the body and sexuality. He examines how societal understandings of sex and intimacy have evolved across centuries, from antiquity to the modern era. His analyses uncover the intricate connections between biological concepts, social norms, and individual experiences. Laqueur's approach offers profound insights into how we have constructed our understanding of human embodiment and sexual identity.

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    The making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century

    • The making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century

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      • 9 hours of reading
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      Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies and means of control, and incorporated into different rhythms of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. The eight articles in this volume support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. They belong to a new historical endeavor that derives partly from the crossing of historical with anthropological investigations, partly from social historians' deepening interest in culture, partly from the thematization of the body in modern philosophy (especially phenomenology), and partly from the emphasis on gender, sexuality, and women's history that large numbers of feminist scholars have brought to all disciplines.

      The making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century