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. In Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud, Al Jones de-naturalizes the proto-theory of "seed-and-soil" procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Sex and Lies, Seed and Soil PART 1 SEED AND SOIL: THE GROUNDWORK Chapter one: History Matters Chapter two: The Psychology of Selling Gender PART II SEED AND SOIL: FROM ABRAHAM TO FREUD Chapter three: Abraham's Seed Chapter four: Covering the Field Chapter five: The Science of Sex: Aristotle's Seed Chapter six: The Seeds of Christianity Chapter seven: Burning Desire: The Witch as Female Chapter eight: The Nineteenth Century: Less Sex, More Lies Chapter nine: Freud's Fantasy PART III SEED AND SOIL: CONTEMPORARY RAMIFICATIONS Chapter ten: The Contemporary Legacy Chapter eleven: Fair's fair Bibliography Index About the Author
