The body is not only a biological phenomenon, it is also a social creation of immense complexity. It is not so much a given as a social category, with different meanings - composed, imposed and developed in each age and indeed by each individual. The attributes, functions and specific organs of the body and the senses are likewise highly controversial. The author explores the history of thinking about the body and the senses, paying special attention both to shifts in ways of thinking about the body over time and to the clash of different approaches to the body today. How people think and...
The body is not only a biological phenomenon, it is also a social creation of immense complexity. It is not so much a given as a social category, with...
THE POWER OF SEX is an entertaining and often startling book that clearly explains why sex, genders, and sexualities--once so relatively simple--are now more complicated and problematic than ever. We may still be male or female but we are also increasingly intersex, transitioning, transgender, trans-sexual, she-males, or ambisexual; we may still be heterosexual or homosex-ual, but we are also increasingly bisexual, asexual, egosexual, polysexual, or pansexual, with paraphilias abounding. Sex, in short, is a maze, minefield and muddle, with the old 2-by-2 model of male/female, gay/straight...
THE POWER OF SEX is an entertaining and often startling book that clearly explains why sex, genders, and sexualities--once so relatively simple--ar...
