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

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

Schiebinger, Londa

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Medical ReferenceSports GeneralGeneral Gender Studies

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ISBN10: 081353531X
ISBN13: 9780813535319
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Nov 3 2004
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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