The Moral Sex - Lieselotte Steinbrgge

This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of woman redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment?

A rich and scientifically ambitious discourse on gender ... The narrative of The Moral Sex is simply and economically outlined.
Times Literary Supplement

it is a useful aid to a deeper understanding of Laquer's Making Sex ... Steinbrgge's essay concisely and effectively fills in the background and should be compulsory reading for anyone working
on Enlightenement medicine. In many respects this is a pearl of a book ... it is a valuable addition to Enlightenment studies tout court.
Laurence Brockliss, Magdalen College, Oxford, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 1 '97