Before revision: He draws from scholars such as Aristotle and Galen to argue that prior to the eighteenth century, women and men represented two different forms of one essential sex: that is, women were seen to possess the same fundamental reproductive structure as men, the only difference being that female genitalia was inside the body, not outside of it.Laqueur (1999), 26.
After revision: He draws from scholars such as Aristotle and Galen to argue that prior to the eighteenth century, women and men were viewed as two different forms of one essential sex: that is, women were seen to possess the same fundamental reproductive structure as men, the only difference being that female genitalia was inside the body, not outside of it.Laqueur (1999), 26.