发表于2024-11-12
Making Sex 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 历史 身体史 文化 性 社会 外国文学 批判理论 Harvard
Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and "Making Sex" tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. The reader cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story - the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm - but the reader will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every discipline. The book looks at how our predecessors, including physicians and scientists, thought about anatomy and analyzes our ideas on gender.
很快地重讀了一下,這才真的注意到Laqueur幾乎沒有談到中世紀的狀況,似乎預設從Galen到文藝復興基本上是沒什麼變化的,難怪會引發中世紀學者的批評。可以搭配著看的書是Joan Cadden的The meanings of sex difference in the middle ages.
评分按需。
评分Reading with a dictionary because of much unknown words, and I'm in over my head.
评分"Chapter 2. Destiny is Anatomy." Rich materials and logical flaws. Can't persuade me about the one-sex model // 上课讨论时说到此书问世后又出了许多反one-sex model的研究成果,而Laqueur对他们的回应是“that's not important”"mine is dominant",对Helen King的Hippocratic corpus的研究他从来没正面回应过。又得知Laquer并不懂古希腊语和拉丁语,他的研究Aristotle都是看的英语翻译,其中关于两性的语言学证据已经流失了(Helen King指出)
评分Theorising Gender 1 - Essential Reading 打卡
Making Sex 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书