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Sperm Counts
Lisa Jean Moore
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Description for Sperm Counts
Paperback. Examining semen historically, medically, and culturally, Sperm Counts is a penetrating exploration of its meaning and power Series: Intersections: Transdisciplinary Persprectives on Genders and Sexualities Series. Num Pages: 214 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Winner of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
It has been called sperm, semen, seed, cum, jizz, spunk, gentlemen's relish, and splooge. But however the “tacky, opaque liquid that comes out of the penis” is described, the very act of defining “sperm” and “semen” depends on your point of view. For Lisa Jean Moore, how sperm comes to be known is based on who defines it (a scientist vs. a defense witness, for example), under what social circumstances it is found (a doctor’s office vs. a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Series
Intersections: Transdisciplinary Persprectives on Genders and Sexualities Series
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814795620
SKU
V9780814795620
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About Lisa Jean Moore
Lisa Jean Moore is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid, Catch & Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab, Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification and the Will to Change Nature as well as the co-author ... Read more
Reviews for Sperm Counts
Sperm Counts is a serious book, and the first on its subject. But it also includes anecdotes from Moores life, lending it a more conversational tone than most academic works. The book's margins are even squiggled with sketches of sperm flip the pages and they swim around. (This is a subject matter, after all, that requires a certain degree of ... Read more