Thomas W. Laqueur The work of the dead

a cultural history of mortal remains

Engels | 711 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2015

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Thomas W. Laqueur Solitary sex

a cultural history of masturbation

At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most universal one is embarrassing, discomforting and genuinely radical when openly acknowledged. Masturbation may be the last taboo. But this is not a holdover from a more benighted age. The ancient world cared little about the subject; it was a backwater of Jewish and Christian teaching about sexuality. In fact, solitary sex as a serious...

Engels | 501 pagina's | Zone Books, New York, N.Y. | 2003

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Thomas Laqueur Making sex

body and gender from the Greeks to Freud

Geschiedenis van de representatie van en het discours over sekse en gender in de medische wetenschap

Engels | 313 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 1990

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Thomas Walter Laqueur Religion and respectability

Sunday schools and working class culture, 1780-1850

Engels | 293 pagina's | University Press, New Haven [etc.] | 1976

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