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PhD History Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Walter Laqueur 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.

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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990) (1572)
:A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (2001) (224)
Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (2003) (214)
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1987) (163)
Auf den Leib geschrieben : die Inszenierung der Geschlechter von der Antike bis Freud (1992) (162)
Chinese femininities, Chinese masculinities : a reader (2002) (138)
CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War (1994) (134)
The Queen Caroline Affair: Politics as Art in the Reign of George IV (1982) (80)
Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology (1986) (79)
DEBATE LITERACY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND (1974) (79)
Bodies, death, and pauper funerals. (1983) (78)
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (2015) (69)
Religion and respectability: Sunday schools and working class culture, 1780-1850 (1979) (65)
Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working-Class Culture, 1780-1850. (1978) (61)
Sexuality and the Transformation of Culture: The Longue Durée (2009) (55)
The Moral Authority of Nature (2006) (47)
The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in England 1500‐1850 (1976) (46)
Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School (2002) (37)
WHY THE MARGINS MATTER: OCCULTISM AND THE MAKING OF MODERNITY (2006) (30)
Sex in the Flesh (2003) (23)
INTRODUCTION GENDER AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION (2002) (20)
The Deep Time of the Dead (2011) (16)
Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three (1989) (14)
The Moral Imagination and Human Rights (2001) (14)
The Industrial Revolution and British society: Sex and desire in the Industrial Revolution (1993) (13)
Eroticism and the Body Politic. (1993) (13)
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark (2013) (10)
The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Historical Context and Historiographical Implications (2012) (10)
The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century@@@Literature and The Body. Essays on Populations and Persons@@@La Revue des Sciences Humaines. (1989) (9)
English and French Education in the Nineteenth Century (1973) (6)
The Facts of Fatherhood (2018) (6)
Form in Ashes (2008) (5)
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman (2020) (5)
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1880 (1981) (5)
Grounds for Remembering (1995) (4)
Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide (2005) (4)
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (2003) (2)
The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in (1976) (2)
The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916–1939. By Mark Connelly. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series. Edited by, Martin Dauntin et al. Woodbridge: Royal Historical Society, 2002. Pp. xii+259. $75.00. (2004) (2)
The English Sunday school and the formation of a respectable working class, 1780-1850 (1974) (1)
Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey, 1825–1875. By James Obelkevich (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xiv + 353 pp.) (1979) (1)
The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now (2009) (1)
Art and Violence (2007) (1)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016) (1)
Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical Construction of Feminity and Masculinity (review) (1999) (1)
Book Review:Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science Lesley Dean-Jones (1995) (1)
THE DARWIN COLLEGE LECTURES (2002) (1)
Death, Grief, and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914. By Julie‐Marie Strange. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Edited by, Margot C. Finn, Colin Jones, and Keith Wrightson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x+294. $85.00. (2008) (1)
The Puritan Way of Death. By David E. Stannard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xii plus 236. $11.95) (1979) (1)
Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (2003) (1)
Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject by Michael Sappol (review) (2018) (0)
The Social Evil, the Solitary Vice, and Pouring Tea (2020) (0)
Linnaeus: Nature, God, and National Economy@@@Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (2000) (0)
Amnesia in America (2018) (0)
Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide. By Lisa Lieberman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. xiii+175. $24.95. (2005) (0)
When medicine is powerless. (2013) (0)
The Beggar's Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightened Scotland and their Rituals (2003) (0)
John Wolffe. Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 331. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-726238-4. (2002) (0)
El mal social, el vicio solitario y servir el té (1992) (0)
Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe. By Craig Koslofsky. New Studies in European History. Edited by Peter Baldwin et al.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+431. $90.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). (2014) (0)
Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 by Erin-Marie Legacey (review) (2021) (0)
Michael Sappol. Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject (2018) (0)
Hugh Cunningham. Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1880. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. Pp. 222. $25.00 (1981) (0)
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England.David Cressy (1981) (0)
Jesuit Kaddish and I (2021) (0)
“Dying Well” and the Doctors (2001) (0)
Where twain did meet (2003) (0)
Urdank Albion M.. Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780–1865. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1990. Pp. xviii, 448. $47.50. (1992) (0)
Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature (2013) (0)
MAking LOVE JUST n Because a cultural crisis is disrupting sexuality and conventional mores (2012) (0)
From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism (2017) (0)
LORRAINE DASTON, FERNANDO VIDAL, editors. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004 Pp. vii, 519. $26.00 (2006) (0)
In Praise of Masturbation (2005) (0)
Of language and the ﬂesh (2012) (0)
Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial (2005) (0)
The John Johnson Collection in Oxford (1977) (0)
Roy Porter, 1946-2002 A critical appreciation (2004) (0)
The Fate of Anatomy (2017) (0)
In Memoriam Paul Alpers (2013) (0)
Response to Section I: Dis-ability (2004) (0)
Cultures of War by John Dower (2011) (0)
Symposium. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. By Laura Engelstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. (1994) (0)
Book Review:Policy Making in Elementary Education, 1870-1895 Gillian Sutherland (1976) (0)
London Chartism 1838-1848. David GoodwayThe Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution. Craig Calhoun (1984) (0)
Roy Porter. Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660–1850. New York: Manchester University Press; distributed by St. Martin's. 1989. Pp. xi, 280. $35.00 (1991) (0)
Response: Men with a past (2007) (0)
Bodies Visible and Invisible: The Erasure of the Jewish Cemetery in the Life of Modern Thessaloniki (2018) (0)
Book Review:Science for the People: The Origins of the School Science Curriculum in England David Layton (1975) (0)
Marcia Pointon. Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 1993. Pp. ix, 278; 294 plates. $65.00 (1995) (0)
Afterword (2021) (0)
Bodies of the past. Essay review. (1993) (0)
Lynn Hunt, editor. Eroticism and the Body Politic. (Parallax Re-visions of Culture and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991. Pp. 242. Cloth $38.50, paper $14.95 (1993) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
CONSISTENCY AND DISCONTINUITY: MY SEIGELIAN LIFE CYCLE (OR, GROWING UP WITH JERRY) (2017) (0)
Onanie und Geschlecht, 1712–1990 (1999) (0)
Gesellschaft des Klatsches (2014) (0)

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