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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... their fields in terms of gender . " The reasons for this are the main concerns of Sexual Visions . First , what we recognize as gender stands as a putatively natural fact . It has been deemed a part of nature Sexual visions.
... their fields in terms of gender . " The reasons for this are the main concerns of Sexual Visions . First , what we recognize as gender stands as a putatively natural fact . It has been deemed a part of nature Sexual visions.
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... sexuality , around which there has been an astonishing deluge of literature . 13 Sexual Visions is not a work about ' sexuality ' , although it inevitably touches upon it . The recent secondary literature on sexuality has a number of ...
... sexuality , around which there has been an astonishing deluge of literature . 13 Sexual Visions is not a work about ' sexuality ' , although it inevitably touches upon it . The recent secondary literature on sexuality has a number of ...
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... Sexual Visions has considered a number of ways in which the biomedical sciences participated in the construction of authoritative visions of the differences between men and women from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries . It was ...
... Sexual Visions has considered a number of ways in which the biomedical sciences participated in the construction of authoritative visions of the differences between men and women from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries . It was ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
an historical perspective | 19 |
Body image and sex roles | 43 |
Copyright | |
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