Thomas W. Laqueur
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, 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, and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California. Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.