ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two classical stories and the changes in how they were read and used over the period during which Thomas Laqueur's historical rupture was supposed to be taking place. Laqueur makes this supposed shift from the 'one-sex' to the 'two-sex', one-way movement than did his main sources, Galen and Aristotle's Masterpiece, and his Making Sex has already been criticised for its focus simply on the genitals. In the classical and early modern worlds, the body was sexed far more widely; models which Laqueur would label 'two-sex' existed throughout the period of his 'one-sex body', and in these sex could extend into every part of the flesh. The chapter summarises the presentation of the various parts of the female body that feature in different versions of the stories of both Phaethousa and Agnodice, and asks what these say to Laqueur and to his emphasis on the one-sex body in which women 'are but Men turn'd Outside'.
