Helen King: "The body beyond Laqueur: Hippocratic sex and its rediscovery"
Ringvorlesung "Natur Geschlecht Politik"
12.06.2017 um 18:00 Uhr
Ort: Hauptgebäude der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Hörsaal A 214
Zeit: Montag, 12. Juni 2017, 18 h c.t.
Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Natur Geschlecht Politik"
"This lecture will challenge Thomas Laqueur's model of an 18th century watershed between ancient and modern, between 'one-sex' and 'two-sex' bodies. It will focus on the Hippocratic model of a difference between the sexes based not on genitalia but on the texture of the flesh, and will examine the rediscovery of this model in the later history of Western medicine. It will also focus on the womb, as the organ which fits least well into a 'one-sex' model of the inversion of reproductive organs."