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

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

Londa L. Schiebinger

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995 "Schiebinger lays bare the cultural narratives that mix so easily with science.
Gendered innovations in science and engineering

Gendered innovations in science and engineering

Londa Schiebinger

This volume, which includes essays by women scientists, reseachers, journalists, and administrators, investigates how gender analysis can spark creativity in science and engineering.
Plants and Empire

Plants and Empire

Londa L Schiebinger

A rich history of discovery and loss, "Plants and Empire" explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
Herbarium

Herbarium

Robyn Stacey

Los Angeles: University of California Press in association with rhe Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Schiebinger, Londa 1 1991), The Mind has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modem Science, f iainbridge. .VIA: Harvard University Press.
The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach

The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach

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London: G. Routledge & Sons. Martin, Emily 1994. ... I. Cunnison, trans. London: RoutledgeandKegan Paul. 1990. ... In Robert N. Proctor and Londa L. Schiebinger (Eds.),Agnotology: TheMakingand Unmaking of Ignorance, 1–33. Stanford,CA: ...
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science

The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science

Londa Schiebinger

As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian Francois Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that "the mind has no sex?
Has Feminism Changed Science?

Has Feminism Changed Science?

Londa Schiebinger

"Has Feminism Changed Science?" is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge.
Where the Negroes Are Masters

Where the Negroes Are Masters

Randy J. Sparks

Jane Schaw, who traveled to Jamaica with her brother andother relatives inthe1770s, criticized “young blackwenches” who “lay themselves outforwhite lovers.” LondaL. Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic ...
Australian Journal of Environmental Education

Australian Journal of Environmental Education

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Schama, S. 1995, Landscape and Memory, HarperCollins, London. Schiebinger, L. 1993, Nature's Body, Pandora, London. Slater, C. 1996, 'Amazonia as edenic narrative, in W. Cronon (ed), Uncommon Ground, W.W. Norton, New York, pp.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

... A. ROSEN ELAINE ROSENTHAL STEVEN J. Ross ERIC ROTHSCHILD ALEx SAGAN FRANCISCO A. SCARANO LONDAL. SCHIEBINGER CHRISTOPHERSCHMIDT-NOWARA ROBERT SHOEMAKER MARY CORBIN SIES DANIEL J.
Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in ...

Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in ...

Richard Cleminson

Rose, N. (1999) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (London: Free Association Books). Rubin, G. (1975) ... Schiebinger, L. (1993) Nature's Body: Sexual Politics and the Making of Modern Science (London: HarperCollins ).

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