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

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

Londa Schiebinger

314 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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