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Feminism and the Body presents classic texts in feminist body studies. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, the volume touches on the medical history of sexual differences, the political history of the body, the history of clothing and its cultural meanings, symbolic renderings of the body, male bodies, and the body in colonial and cross-cultural contexts.
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Londa Schiebinger is the Professor of the History of Science at Pennsylvania State University. She has won the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize (Society for Social Studies of Science) for her previous publication Nature's Body, and the History of Women in Science Prize (History of Science Society) for her article Why Mammals are Called Mammals.
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In 1796 the German anatomist Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring published in a separate folio what he claimed to be the first illustration of a female skeleton. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Charles Darwin, North America, Cambridge University Press, French Revolution, Harvard University Press, Eastern Woodlands, University of California Press, Sarah Bartmann, New Haven, University of Chicago Press, Stanford University Press, West Indies, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, History of Jamaica, Yale University Press, Amsterdam School, African American, Delacroix's Liberty, Oxford University Press, Sigmund Freud, British Caribbean, Middle Ages, Michel Foucault New!
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- History of Jamaica: From Its Discovery (Research library of colonial Americana) by Edward Long on 5 pages
- Nature's Body by Londa Schiebinger on 5 pages
- Prehistoric Food Production in North America (Anthropological Papers (Univ of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology)) by Richard I. Ford on 4 pages
- Feminism, the Public, and the Private (Oxford Readings in Feminism) by Joan B. Landes in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 392
- Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner in Front Matter, page 179, and page 265
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- In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification by Victoria Pitts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship by Kathleen Canning on page 26, and Back Matter
- Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Angela N. H. Creager on page 109, and Back Matter
- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World by Londa Schiebinger in Back Matter
- Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture by Louise Westmarland in Back Matter
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