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Has Feminism Changed Science?
Do women do science differently? And how about feminists--male or female? The answer to this fraught question, carefully set out in this provocative book, will startle and …
The Mind Has No Sex?
As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian François Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that “the mind has no sex.” In …
Soundings in Atlantic History
These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed …
Nature's Body
Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of …
Feminism and the Body
This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical "discovery" of the clitoris, to the "body …
Plants and Empire
Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have …