Item
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
title
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
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publisher
Beacon Press
publication year
1993
description
18th-century natural historians created a peculiar but durable vision of nature, embodying the sexual and racial tensions of that era. Plants were found to reproduce sexually, and great apes were just becoming known. This text uncovers the ways in which assumptions about sex, and race have shaped scientific explanations of nature.
education level
temporal
reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Schiebinger, Londa