Table of Contents

The private lives of plants
Why mammals are called mammals
The gendered ape
The anatomy of difference
Theories of gender and race
Who should do science?

About the Author

Londa Schiebinger is professor of history of science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is the author of numerous books including, The Mind Has No Sex?, Has Feminism Changed Science?, Feminism and the Body, and Plants and Empire.

Reviews

"[Nature’s Body] is so wonderfully humorous and is done with such careful attention to detail, the reader cannot help but see the profound implications of the history of science for modern science. Indispensable for all anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and practitioners of science."
*author of The Woman in the Body*

"Schiebinger lays bare the cultural narratives that mix so easily with science. They are at the same time hilarious and eerie, silly and profoundly disturbing. Schiebinger is brilliant in showing how tales of gender and race are told in other guises."
*author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud*