THE MIND HAS NO SEX?: WOMEN IN THE ORIGINS OF MODERN

Book ID/图书代码： 06100013B61089

English Summary/英文概要： As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian Francois Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that "the mind has no sex?" In this rich and comprehensive history of women’s contributions to the development of early modem science, Londa Schiebinger examines the shifting fortunes of male and female equality in the sphere of the intellect. Schiebinger counters the "great women" mode of history and calls attention to broader developments in scientific culture that have been obscured by time and changing circumstance. She also elucidates a larger issue: how gender structures knowledge and power. It is often assumed that women were automatically excluded from participation in the scientific revolution of early modem Europe, but in fact powerful trends encouraged their involvement. Aristocratic women participated in the learned discourse of the Renaissance court and dominated the informal salons that proliferated in seventeenth-century Paris. In Germany, women of the artisan class pursued research in fields such as astronomy and entomology. These and other women fought to renegotiate gender boundaries within the newly established scientific academies in order to secure their place among the men of science. But for women the promises of the Enlightenment were not to be fulfilled. Scientific and social upheavals not only left women on the sidelines but also brought about what the author calls the "scientific revolution in views of sexual difference?" While many aspects of the scientific revolution are well understood, what has not generally been recognized is that revolution came also from another quarter--the scientific understanding of biological sex and sexual temperament (what we today call gender). Illustrations of female skeletons of the ideal woman--with small skulls and large pelvises--portrayed female nature as a virtue in the private realm of hearth and home, but as a handicap in the world of science. At the same time, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women witnessed the erosion of their own spheres of influence. Midwifery and medical cookery were gradually subsumed into the newly profess ionalized medical sciences. Scientia, the ancient female personification of science, lost ground to a newer image of the male researcher, efficient and solitary--a development that reflected a deeper intellectual shift. By the late eighteenth century, a self-reinforcing system had emerged that rendered invisible the inequalities women suffered.

In reexamining the origins of modem science, Schiebinger unearths a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 為了爭取女性在科技文化史上的地位，笛卡爾•弗朗索瓦•普蘭•德拉巴雷早在1673年就提出“思想是沒有性別區別的”。在當代科學發展的早期，女性給予了全面豐富的貢獻，Londa Schiebinger教授考察了這個時段科學界的性別平等問題。她提出了歷史上的偉大女人的模式，關注被時間和多變環境隱藏的科學文化發展。她甚至提出一個更大的課題: 性別是如何重塑知識和力量的？

人們總以為女性自動被排除在現代歐洲早年的科學革命之外，但事實上多種潮流的發展都加大了她們的參與度。比如貴族女性積極參與了文藝復興道路，主持著各種非官方的沙龍，這些聚會活躍在17世紀的法國。在德國，手工藝階級的女性研究天文學和昆蟲學。這些例子和女性的世紀都能在新的科研體系中討論科學領域裡的性別區別的極限，以此來保護女性在男性主導的科學領域裡的地位。 啟蒙運動的成果根本沒有在女性身上體現，在科學和社會發生劇變之後，不但女性被科學邊緣化了，還出現了作者提出的“從性別差異中體現的科學變革”。科學變革的大多數方面都得到了理解和改觀，唯獨一點接受的人還不多，那就是對性別和兩性氣質的客觀理解。大多數理想女性的骨骼總是有小頭顱，大盆骨，這就將女性天然的優點定為在家庭和爐灶這樣的私人領域，卻是科學領域中的障礙。同時，17、18世紀的女性親眼見識到自己在科學領域影響力的衰落。助產術和醫學烹飪被逐漸歸入新型的專業醫療科學中。古代女性科學的代表Scientia讓位與高效率獨立的男性研究員形象，這種發展也展現了深層次的學術身份的改變。18世紀末期，出現了一種自我強化的系統，更體現了女性所受到的不公待遇。在考察現代科學的起源是，Schiebinger挖掘了女性科學家身上被人遺忘的遺產，並探討了形成科學和學術的文化與歷史力量。(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况：Foreign Translations: Japanese (Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co., 1992); German (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1993); Chinese (Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing ); Portuguese (Lisbon: Pandora Ediçioes, 2001); Spanish (Madrid: Cátedra Ediciones, 2004); Korean (Seoul: Booksea Publishing Co., 2008); and Greek (Athens: Katoptro, 2006).

About the Author/作者介绍： 隆達 席賓格教授是斯坦福大學歷史系科學歷史專業教授；歐美科學、醫藥、工程領域性別研究主任。2004-2010年席賓格教授是斯坦福大學克萊曼性別研究所的主任。在過去的20年裡，席賓格教授分析了性別科學領域裡的三個相互關聯又不相同的主題：女性參與科學研究的歷史，科研機構的結構和人類知識產生的性別區別。

隆達 席賓格教授在聯合國2010年在巴黎展開的性別、科學和技術專家組會議上發表了主旨演講並寫了背景概念論文。她2011年2月于紐約向聯合國發表了自己的研究發現。2011年3月聯合國決議呼籲“科技領域的性別研究”以及“科技領域中性別方面”研究的整合。

她和歐洲委員會共同合作過幾個領域、2011年1月她進入歐盟性別創新研究項目組，此項目已經吸引了來自美國和歐洲27各國家專家的力量。

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science in the History Department at Stanford University and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project. From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Over the past twenty years, Schiebinger’s work has been devoted to teasing apart three analytically distinct but interlocking pieces of the gender and science puzzle: the history of women’s participation in science; the structure of scientific institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge.

Londa Schiebinger presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the United Nations’ Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology, September 2010 in Paris. She presented the finding at the United Nations in New York, February 2011. The UN Resolutions of March 2011 call for "gender-based analysis ... in science and technology" and for the integrations of a "gender perspective in science and technology curricula."

She has worked with the European Commission on a number of projects. January 2011 she entered into a major collaboration with the European Union for her Gendered Innovations project. In addition to drawing experts from across the US, this project now has access to experts from the EU 27 member states.

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