Thomas W. Laqueur
Laqueur at the Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest, May 2016.
Born
Thomas Walter Laqueur

(1945-09-06) September 6, 1945
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma materNuffield College, Oxford, Princeton University, Swarthmore College
Known forOne sex two sex theory
AwardsRockefeller Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship[1]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, Sexology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Thomas Walter Laqueur (born September 6, 1945) is an American historian, sexologist and writer. He is the author of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award,[2] and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California.[1] Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.[3]

Thought

One-sex model

Laqueur wrote that there was an ancient "one-sex model", in which the woman was only described as imperfect man / human and he postulates that definitions of sex/gender were historically different and changeable.[4]

This argument has been challenged by some historians of science, notably Katharine Park and Robert A. Nye;[5] Monica Green,[6] Heinz-Jürgen Voss,[7] and Helen King,[8] who reject the suggestion that ancient descriptions show a homogenous model, the one-sex model which then mutated in the 18th century to a two-sex model. They encourage a more differentiated perception that makes clear that gender theories of natural philosophy as well as biology and medicine, are embedded and constructed in certain social contexts.

Bibliography

Books

  • Laqueur, Thomas (2015). The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691157-78-8.
  • Laqueur, Thomas (2004). Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. Brooklyn: Zone Books. ISBN 1-890951-32-3.
  • Laqueur, Thomas (1990). Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54349-1.
  • Gallagher, Catherine; Laqueur, Thomas (1987). The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05960-3.
  • Laqueur, Thomas (1976). Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780–1850. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01859-2.

Selected articles

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Thomas W. Laqueur Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Database (n.d.). "Thomas W. Laqueur". MIT Press. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  4. ↑ Laqueur, Thomas (1990). Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54349-1. 25-63.
  5. ↑ Park, Katharine; Nye, Robert A. (1991). "Destiny Is Anatomy, Review of Laqueurs Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud". The New Republic. 18. S. 53-57.
  6. ↑ Green, Monica (2010). "Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference" in Linda Kalof, ed., A Cultural History of the Human Body, Vol. 2: In the Medieval Age. New York City: Berg Publishers.
  7. ↑ Voss, Heinz-Jürgen (2010): Making Sex Revisited: Dekonstruktion des Geschlechts aus biologisch-medizinischer Perspektive. Transcript, Bielefeld.
  8. ↑ King, Helen (2013). The one-sex body on trial: the classical and early modern evidence. London: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1138247628. OCLC 957681362.
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