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Nature's body: gender in the making of modern science
Londa L Schiebinger-
Frontmatter
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Preface (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xix)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Chapter 1: The Private Lives of Plants (page 11)
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The Search for New Methods of Classification (page 13)
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Plant (Hetero)sexuality (page 18)
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The Use of Metaphor in Science (page 23)
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Linnaeus and the Botanic Reveries of Erasmus Darwin (page 28)
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The Scientific Revolution in Views of Sexual Difference (page 37)
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Chapter 2: Why Mammals Are Called Mammals (page 40)
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Mammalia—The Genealogy of a Term (page 42)
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Honorary Mammals: Males and Monotremes (page 47)
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How Significant Are the Mammae? (page 51)
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Breasts and Mother's Milk: Problematic Icons (page 53)
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Gender Politics in Taxonomy (page 65)
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Chapter 3: The Gendered Ape (page 75)
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Distinguishing Humans from Apes (page 78)
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Females of the Species (page 88)
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Are Apes Human Hybrids? (page 94)
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Modesty—A Feminine Universal (page 99)
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The Enlightened Ape: Sir Oran Haut-ton (page 106)
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Chapter 4: The Anatomy of Difference (page 115)
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Fixing Racial and Sexual Types (page 117)
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"That Majestic Beard" (page 120)
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The Caucasian Mystery (page 126)
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Do Women Shape the Race (page 134)
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Chapter 5: Theories of Gender and Race (page 143)
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Were Women on the Chain? (page 145)
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The Hottentot Venus (page 160)
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The New Body Politic (page 172)
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Chapter 6: Who Should Do Science? (page 184)
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The Origins of Science: Black or White? (page 186)
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Eighteenth-Century Experiments in Education (page 190)
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Nature's Body Wronged (page 201)
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Notes (page 213)
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Bibliography (page 269)
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Index (page 283)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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WMQ | "vol. 52, no. 2, 1995, pp. 374–376" | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2946994 |
ISIS | "vol. 87, no. 4, 1996, pp. 730–731" | http://www.jstor.org/stable/235229 |
American Scientist | "vol. 82, no. 5, 1994, pp. 493–494" | http://www.jstor.org/stable/29775312 |
JHB | "vol. 28, no. 2, 1995, pp. 369–371" | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4331354 |
JMH | "vol. 69, no. 3, 1997, pp. 563–564" | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2953601 |
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- 9780813535319 (paper)