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Nature's Body - Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Nature's Body - Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies
of Science, 1995Eighteenth-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.
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