Londa Schiebinger

Londa Schiebinger (born May 13, 1952 ) is an American historian of science and science theorist . She is currently Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University .

Life

In 1984, Schiebinger received her Ph. D. in history from Harvard University . In 1999 she was the first woman to be awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize.

Schubinger's work focuses on the gender category in the sciences. This concerns on the one hand the role of women scientists in history and on the other hand the notions of gender differences in different epochs of the history of science . So, in The Mind Has No Sex? for example neuroscientific theories about differences between women and men since the 17th century .

Another area in which he works is the history of botany . On the one hand, he examined the interactions between colonialist ideology and botanical theory. On the other hand, in Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science , Schiebinger describes the introduction of sexual categories in the plant kingdom.

Schiebinger also examines developments in the current scientific landscape: She discusses the influence of feminism on science in the publication Has Feminism Changed Science?

She is married to Robert N. Proctor and has two children.

Awards

1994 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize from the History of Science Society
1999 Humboldt Research Prize
2014 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Publications

The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1989, ISBN 0-674-57623-3 .
- Beautiful spirits: women in the dawn of modern science. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-91259-2 .
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. Beacon Press, New Brunswick (NJ) 1993, ISBN 0-8135-3531-X .
- At the bosom of nature. Knowledge and gender in the beginnings of science , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91706-3 .
Has Feminism Changed Science? Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1999, ISBN 0-674-38113-0 .
- Women do research differently. How feminine is science? Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46699-0 .
Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2004, ISBN 0-674-01487-1 .

Web links

Literature by and about Londa Schiebinger in the catalog of the German National Library
Londa Schiebinger on the Stanford University website (with curriculum vitae ; PDF; 209 kB)
How feminine is the pistil? , Interview with Gudrun Fischer on Friday , July 5, 2002
The female knowledge , interview with Christiane Grefe in Zeit , May 3, 2007

Individual evidence

^ Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize 1994

personal data
SURNAME	Schiebinger, Londa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1952

[1] Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize 1994