Londa Schiebinger: Nature's Body

Cover: 9780813535319 | Nature's Body | Gender in the Making of Modern Science | Schiebinger

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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.

Über den Autor

Londa Schiebinger is professor of history of science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is the author of numerous books including, The Mind Has No Sex?, Has Feminism Changed Science?, Feminism and the Body, and Plants and Empire.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The private lives of plants
Why mammals are called mammals
The gendered ape
The anatomy of difference
Theories of gender and race
Who should do science?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780813535319
ISBN-10:	081353531X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schiebinger, Londa
Auflage:	2nd edition
Hersteller:	Rutgers University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Londa Schiebinger
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.11.2004
Gewicht:	0,433 kg

Artikel-ID: 132585315

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The private lives of plants
Why mammals are called mammals
The gendered ape
The anatomy of difference
Theories of gender and race
Who should do science?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780813535319
ISBN-10:	081353531X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schiebinger, Londa
Auflage:	2nd edition
Hersteller:	Rutgers University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Londa Schiebinger
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.11.2004
Gewicht:	0,433 kg