Londa L. Schiebinger

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995 "Schiebinger lays bare the cultural narratives that mix so easily with science. They are at the same time hilarious and eerie, silly and profoundly disturbing. Schiebinger is brilliant in showing how tales of gender and race are told in other guises."--Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud "[Nature's Body] is so wonderfully humorous and is done with such careful attention to detail, the reader cannot help but see the profound implications of the history of science for modern science. Indispensable for all anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and practitioners of science."--Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body 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.

Gender in the Making of Modern Science

Nature's Body

Robert Proctor

Londa Schiebinger

"This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii.

The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Agnotology

Professor History of Science Londa Schiebinger

This volume, which includes essays by women scientists, reseachers, journalists, and administrators, investigates how gender analysis can spark creativity in science and engineering.

Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering

This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look atthe way in which coverings bear cultural meaning: clothing reform during the French Revolution, Islamic veiling, and the invention of the top hat; as well as the embodiment of cherished cultural values in social icons such as the Statue of Liberty or the Barbie doll. By considering culture as itdefines not only women but also men, this volume offers both the student and the general reader an insight into the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study involved in feminist body studies.

Feminism and the Body

Andrea Davies Henderson

Shannon K. Gilmartin

What Universities Need to Know

Dual-career Academic Couples

Londa Schiebinger saca a la luz en este libro las aportaciones de las mujeres al desarrollo de la ciencia en la edad moderna temprana e indaga las fuerzas culturales e históricas que siguen determinando el curso del saber y el conocimiento científico. Con un verdadero esfuerzo de arqueología intelectual, la autora utiliza una gran cantidad de material biográfico y científico sobre las mujeres que se dedican a las ciencias naturales y a la medicina. Es, pues, una descripción magníficamente detallada (que unas veces divierte, otras sorprende, otras consterna y otras resulta dolorosa) de cómo participaron en la ciencia hombres y mujeres y en qué cambió las cosas esta participación, tanto para ellos, como para la ciencia y para nuestra idea general de la diferencia sexual.

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