Thomas W. Laqueur | |
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 Laqueur at the Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest, May 2016. | |
| Born | Thomas Walter Laqueur September 6, 1945 |
| Alma mater | Nuffield College, Oxford, Princeton University, Swarthmore College |
| Known for | One-sex and two-sex theories |
| Awards | Rockefeller Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship,[1] Cundill Prize in Historical Literature |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History, Sexology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thomas Walter Laqueur (born September 6, 1945) is an American historian, sexologist and writer. He is the author of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award,[2] and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California.[1] Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.[3]
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