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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.-Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud; ""Wonderfully humorous.... Indispensable for all anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and practitioners of science.""-Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body
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The modern world places a great deal of faith in the objectivity of science. In this collection of essays, historian Londa Schiebinger reveals the sexual and racial preconceptions which affect the way that science is practised today. She takes the reader on a tour of Western culture and science in the 18th century revealing, for example, the way early botanists ascribed "passionate" relations, polyandrous marriages and suicidal incest to plant reproduction. History and reasoned analysis combine in these essays to form an argument for the restructuring modern science must undergo if it is truly to attain the objectivity it claims.
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