Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex.
Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, this work demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps.