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Thomas W. Laqueur

Sexologist and historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81

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.

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George L. Mosse Prize2016
Cundill History Prize2016
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

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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United States
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Writers
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Dates
Born 1945 · age 81