In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major re

History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.

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Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era

"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs wo