Turning to gender

9 Março 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

The difference between Sex and Gender. The criticism to the invariant character of Sex and the concept of Biology. The gendered human body according the Greeks, the Roman and in medieval times. Thomas Laqueur’s “one sex theory”. The impact of the Renaissance and the changes brought by the Scientific Revolution.  The representations of the human skeleton in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sexual differences and racial differences. 

  

Presentation by Inês Olaia, and discussion of the article of Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075. 

 

References: 

 

BOCK, Gisela, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, Gender & History, 1-1, 1989, pp. 7-30. 

 

DOWNS, Laura Lee. Writing Gender History. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004.  

 

SCOTT, Joan Wallach, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075.  

 

SCHIEBINGER, Londa, “Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy”, in Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur (ed.), The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987, pp. 42-82. 

 

SCHIEBINGER, Londa, The Mind has no Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1991.