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The Gender Vendors - Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud (Hardcover)
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The Gender Vendors - Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud (Hardcover)
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Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation,
"the seed and the soil" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and
most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors
denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its
contemporary legacy. As metaphor for gender and procreation,
seed-and-soil constructs the father as the sole generating parent
and the mother as nurturing medium, like soil, for the man's
seed-child. In other words, men give life; women merely give birth.
The Gender Vendors examines seed-and-soil in the context of the
psychology of gender, honor and chastity codes, female genital
mutilation, the taboo on male femininity, femiphobia (the fear of
being feminine or feminized), sexual violence, institutionalized
abuse, the early modern witch hunts, the medicalization and
criminalization of gender nonconformity, and campaigns against
women's rights. The examination is structured around particular
watersheds in the history of seed-and-soil, for example, Genesis,
ancient Greece, early Christianity, the medieval Church, the early
modern European witch hunts, and the campaigns of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries against women's suffrage and education. The
neglected story of seed-and-soil matters to everyone who cares
about gender equality and why it is taking so long to achieve.
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