Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth CenturiesDemonstrates that gender as a metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of biological and medical sciences. |
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Introduction | 1 |
an historical perspective | 19 |
Body image and sex roles | 43 |
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