Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science by Schiebinger, Londa

Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995Eighteenth-century natural historians created...
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Author: Londa Schiebinger
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Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science by Schiebinger, Londa

Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science

$142.53

Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science

$142.53
Author: Londa Schiebinger
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995

Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.

Written with humor and meticulous detail, Nature's Body draws on these and other examples to uncover the ways in which assumptions about gender, sex, and race have shaped scientific explanations of nature. Schiebinger offers a rich cultural history of science and a timely and passionate argument that science must be restructured in order to get it right.



Author: Londa Schiebinger
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 11/03/2004
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.28w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780813535319

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