Thomas W. Laqueur je americký historik a sexológ, ktorého dielo sa ponorilo do kultúrnych dejín ľudskej sexuality. Jeho písanie skúma, ako sa naše chápanie tela a genderu vyvíjalo počas stáročí, odhaľujúc zložité spoločenské konštrukcie, ktoré formujú naše intímne životy. Prostredníctvom dôkladného výskumu Laqueur ponúka prenikavé pohľady na to, ako sa naše vnímanie sexuality a tela menilo od antiky až po modernú dobu, čím spochybňuje zavedené predstavy o prirodzenosti. Jeho prístup vyzýva čitateľov, aby prehodnotili hlboko zakorenené predpoklady o tom, čo znamená byť človekom a ako sa táto identita formuje na základe biologických a kultúrnych síl.
Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice and Making Sex tells the story of sex in the west from the ancients to the moderns. It looks at how our predecessors thought about anatomy and analyzes our ideas on gender. číst celé
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters- for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.