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Beacon Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Hardcover - 1993
by Schiebinger, Londa
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- Title Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
- Author Schiebinger, Londa
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Beacon Pr, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- ISBN 9780807089002
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Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
by Londa Schiebinger
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Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ to Near Fine in a Very Near Fine DJ: The Book shows a touch of crimp to the heel of the backstrip; a small, faint smudge at the top edge and a few faint, tiny soil spots at the bottom edge of the text block; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". The DJ shows a hint of wear to the head and heel of the backstrip; else flawless; unclipped; mylar-protected. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.35 x 6.15 x…
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NATURE'S BODY: Gender in the Making of Modern Science.
by Schiebinger, Londa.
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- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed,
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Boston:: Beacon Press,, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed,. First printing. A book which "concentrates on 17th- and 18th-century European developments in taxonomy and physical anthropology to show how the European male became the prototype of the human race; how women were reduced to a subset noted only for sexual differences; and how people of color were placed at inferior levels of the great chain of being, on a par with apes. By celebrating sexuality in plants, Erasmus, Darwin, and Linneaus did much to set the stage for thinking of females in terms of sexuality alone - leading Linneaus to choose the term 'mammals' to distinguish the order of warmblooded, hairy animals - -but also to underscore women's role as nurturing caretakers. More shocking was the scholars' concern with female genitalia and sexual characteristics." (Kirkus) Winner of the 1994 Society for Social Studies of…
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