One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging “Making Sex”

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Professor Helen King (Professor of Classical Studies, Open University)

Abstract

In this paper I will discuss the various challenges that have been made to Thomas Laqueur's model of a shift from a 'one-sex' to a 'two-sex' model of the body in the eighteenth century. I will consider the attractions – especially to those in literature and related disciplines – and the dangers of any such model, and the ways in which different academic disciplines have received this particular one. To illustrate my argument, I will focus on the different understandings of sex change across western history.

 

A joint event, hosted by CIRF, Generation to Reproduction and the Classics Faculty (C caucus).

 

Open to all. No registration required.

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