Can I read Nature's Body : Gender in the Making of Modern Science on EtoBox?

Nature's Body : Gender in the Making of Modern Science by Londa L Schiebinger; American Council of Learned Societies is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nature's Body : Gender in the Making of Modern Science about?

<p>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.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>This historical study explores the influence of sex roles in the development of modern science, mu

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

Author

Londa L Schiebinger; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813535319

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.99 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14