Nature's Body

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  • Nature's Body Book Detail

  • Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Genre : Medical
  • Pages : 316
  • ISBN 13 : 9780813535319
  • File Size : 34,34 MB

Nature's Body by Londa L. Schiebinger PDF Summary

Book Description: Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.

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