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Do women do science differently? This is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Science is both a profession and a body of knowledge, and Londa Schiebinger looks at how women have fared and performed in both instances. Shoe first considers the lives of women scientists, past and present. Schiebinger debunks the myth that women scientists - because they are women - are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities. However, have feminist perspectives brought any positive change to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.

Sociology of knowledge --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Feminism --- Feminisme --- Femmes dans les sciences --- Femmes de science --- Femmes scientifiques --- Féminisme --- Vrouwelijke wetenschappers --- Vrouwen in de wetenschap --- Wetenschappers [Vrouwelijke ] --- Women in science --- Women scientists --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- 396 --- 5 --- #SBIB:316.346H23 --- #SBIB:316.346H29 --- #WSCH:ETOS --- wetenschappen --- feminisme (feministische visie) --- vrouwen --- 396:167 --- Scientists --- Minorities in science --- Science --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's liberation --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: studie en onderwijs --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: andere topics --- sciences --- féminisme --- femmes --- Emancipation --- 5 Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 396 Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Gender --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Participation --- Archaeology --- Sexism --- Mathematics --- Exact sciences --- Biology --- Book

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Merian, Maria Sibylla --- Châtelet, du [Mme] --- Erxleben, Dorothea Christiane --- Schlözer, Dorothea --- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia --- Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte --- Winckelmann, Maria Margarethe --- Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Science --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Erxleben, Dorothea --- History --- Theory --- Academic sector --- Book --- Châtelet, du, Émilie

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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 voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

Pride-of-Barbados (Plant) --- Herbal abortifacients --- Slavery --- Abortifacients --- Herbs --- Barbados flower-fence (Plant) --- Barbados pride (Plant) --- Caesalpinia pulcherrima --- Dwarf poinciana --- Flamboyant tree --- Flower-fence, Barbados (Plant) --- Flowerfence (Plant) --- Krere-krere --- Paradise flower --- Poinciana bijuga --- Poinciana pulcherrima --- Red bird of paradise (Plant) --- Peacock flower --- Tabachin --- Tabaquin --- Caesalpinia --- History. --- Therapeutic use --- Medicine --- History

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Science --- Philosophy of science --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Biology --- Gender --- Colonialism --- Racism --- Science --- Biology --- Book --- Anthropology --- Epistemology --- anno 1700-1799

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