Review of Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Authors

  • Sander Gilman

Abstract

Claims this book adds much to scholarly understanding of the concept of sexuality, but faults the author for limiting her investigation to the period 1700-present and for making unsupported assumptions about the concept of gender.

Published

1989-12-19

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Articles