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Author:   Helen King ,  Dr. Andrew Cunningham ,  Professor Ole Peter Grell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781409463351

ISBN 10:   1409463354
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'Elegantly argued and endlessly fascinating, King has marshalled an impressive range of material to show that the two-sex body is not a modern phenomenon. Two-sex and one-sex ways of thinking about the body have existed alongside one another since antiquity, and the choice about which model to privilege depended on the rhetorical needs of individual authors.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'In The One-Sex Body on Trial, Helen King... at last provides the counterpoint. Gracefully acknowledging the value of Laqueur's work, she also offers its first real challenge. With her usual depth of perception, careful research, and immanent readability, King elaborates the other side of the one-sex/two-sex story.' Medical Humanities 'King's monograph is much more than a withering critique of Laqueur's Making Sex, it is a masterful review of the medical history of women's bodies and the politics of sex in medicine... King exercises a detailed, cautious reading of texts in their historical context... All the while, King thoughtfully and thoroughly draws in the historiography of women in medicine and midwifery/obstetrics, as well as a critical analysis of representations of women in anatomy and physiology that has blossomed in the past fifty years of feminist perspectives in the history of medicine and in science studies.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 'King's book rigorously interrogates the 'one-sex' and two-sex' models until there is no doubt that they are simply wrong. She also replaces Laqueur's reductive models with fascinating insights detailing the complex understanding of the reproductive system and gender identity in the classical and early modern periods. The One-Sex Body on Trial is an essential text, which ends a dubious chapter in academic history.' Parergon

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Helen King is Professor of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK.

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