The gender vendors : sex and lies from Abraham to Freud / / Al Jones

• Autore: Jones Al <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Book, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4201
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Philosophy; Biology - Social aspects - Philosophy; Nature and nurture - Philosophy; Feminist theory
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sex and Lies, Seed and Soil; Part I: Seed and Soil: The Groundwork; 1 History Matters; 2 The Psychology of Selling Gender; Part II: Seed and Soil: From Abraham to Freud; 3 Abraham's Seed; 4 Covering the Field; 5 The Science of Sex: Aristotle's Seed and Soil; 6 The Seeds of Christianity; 7 Burning Desire: The Witch as Female; 8 The Nineteenth Century: Less Sex, More Lies; 9 Freud's Fantasy; Part III: Seed and Soil: Contemporary Ramifications; 10 The Contemporary Legacy; 11 Fair's Fair; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span>Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, ""the seed and the soil"" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud,</span><span> Al Jones de-naturalizes the proto-theory of "seed-and-soil" procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy.</span></span>
• Titolo autorizzato: The gender vendors
• ISBN: 1-4985-0536-8; 0-7391-9097-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791152603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II