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Sexual visions: images of gender in science and medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries

Year: 1990

Type: book-review

Abstract: Sexual Visions makes a powerful statement about the cultural intertwining of science and sexuality, making a significant contribution to the fields of women's studies, biology, art history and cultural studies. Through an extensive analysis of professional and popular medical and biological writings, sculpture, anatomical wax models, paintings, films, poetry and fiction, the author shows how the fluid and ever-changing roles of such opposites as male/female and reason/emotion are central to the culture of science and are also powerful images in their own rights.

Source: Choice Reviews Online

DOI: 10.5860/choice.27-2773

Author: Lawrence, Christopher

Language: English

Topic: Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2068425252

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