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Nature's Body

By Londa Schiebinger

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Nature's Body

By Londa Schiebinger

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
314
Release Date:
2004-11-25
Publication Date:
2004-11-03
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
081353531X
ISBN13:
9780813535319
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
433 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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