Londa Schiebinger

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Full Name	Londa Schiebinger
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	May 13, 1952(1952-05-13)
Age	72
Birthplace	Lincoln
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Londa Schiebinger Biography

Londa Schiebinger is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on May 13, 1952 in Lincoln, United States. Schiebinger tells of Maria Sibylla, one of few European women who sailed for science in the 18th century. The touching passage is found in the 1705 Metamorphosis inorum Surinamensium. Merian, a German-born naturalist, describes how Surinam’s slave population used the seeds from a plant called the flos pavonis (literally ‘peacock flowers’) as an abortion to prevent them becoming slaves. This book shows how European bioprospectors learned and failed to learn from the Caribbean rich knowledge traditions. According to Schiebinger, abortifacients are a type of knowledge that was not freely available between Europe and the West Indies. Trade winds and prevailing opinions prevented shiploads from reaching Europe with New World abortifacients.

Francois Poullain De la Barre proposed a theory that Schiebinger used to create his prize-winning historical work. It focuses on the eighteenth century history of medicine and science. The Mind has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989), is the first scientific work to examine gender and women in the history of Western science. The Mind has No Sexuality? The privileged twins of modern science, the myth of the natural bodily and the myth about value-neutral knowledge were exposed. Schiebinger shows that science’s claim to objectivity was the key to a system that made women’s exclusion in science invisible and made it seem fair and just. She claims that women were willing and able to accept their roles in science during the early modern period of astronomy and physics, maths, anatomy, botany, and physics. It was not to be.

Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (1993)

Nature’s Body won the 1995 Ludwik Fleck Book Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, and her article, “Why Mammals are Called Mammals,” featured on the cover of the American Historical Review, won the 1994 History of Women in Science Prize from the History of Science Society.

Londa Schiebinger, she/bing/@r, was born May 13, 1952. She is the John L. Hinds professor of History of Science in the Department of History and, with the courtesy of the d-school at Stanford University. In 1984, she received her Ph.D. at Harvard University. She is an international authority in the history, theory, and practice of gender in science and medicine. She is currently the Director of Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project. She is an American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected member. Schiebinger was awarded honorary doctorates by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium (2013), the Faculty of Science at Lund University in Sweden (2017), and the Universitat de Valencia in Spain (2018). She is a member of the international advisory board of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Londa Schiebinger Net Worth

Londa Schiebinger is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Londa Schiebinger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Modern science was not only excluding women like Winkelmann and Merian, but also a concept called “femininity”. [10] Schiebinger’s chapter “Skeletons in the Closet” is the most well-known part of the book. Here she describes the history of the first European anatomy illustrations that depict female skeletons. Schiebinger claims that the first female skeletons were created by the attempt to define women’s position in society, especially white middle- class women. There was much debate about the strengths and weaknesses of these female skulls. The focus was on the depictions of the pelvis as a measure for womanliness and intelligence. The anatomy of sex differences provided a foundation upon which to create natural relationships between the sexes after the 1750s. His social role was justified by the superior body and mind of the male. The unique characteristics of the female body also justified her natural role in the household as a wife and mother. In science and society, women were not to be equals with men. They were to be their complements.

The U.S. Public Health Service exploited 600 poor African-American sharecroppers in Alabama between 1932-1972 as part of its Tuskegee Syphilis study (1932-1972). This book examines the history of medical experimentation with human beings in the eighteenth century. It focuses on whether large slave populations, mainly from American plantations, were used to make human guinea- pigs.

The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989)

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Over the past thirty years, Schiebinger has analyzed what she call the three “fixes”: “Fix the Numbers of Women” focuses on increasing the numbers of women participating in science and engineering; “Fix the Institutions” promotes gender equality in careers through structural change in research organizations; and “Fix the Knowledge” or “gendered innovations” stimulates excellence in science and technology by integrating sex and gender analysis into research. As a result of this work, she was recruited in a national search to direct Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, a post she held from 2004-2010. Her job was to promote and support research on women and gender across Stanford University—from engineering, to philosophy, to medicine and business. In 2010 and 2014, she presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the United Nations’ Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology. 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.” In 2013 she presented the Gendered Innovations project at the European Parliament. Gendered Innovations was also presented to the South Korean National Assembly in 2014. In 2015, Schiebinger addressed 600 participants from 40 countries on Gendered Innovations at the Gender Summit 6—Asia Pacific, a meeting devoted to gendered innovations in research. She speaks globally on gendered innovations—from Brazil to Japan, and her work was recently presented in a Palace Symposium for the King and Queen of the Netherlands at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

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Londa Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Londa Schiebinger celebrates birthday on May 13 of every year.

Schiebinger coined the term “gendered innovations” in 2005. In 2009 she launched Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment, a field of research and methodology, at Stanford University. The project was joined by the European Commission in 2011, by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2012. In 2019-2020, Gendered Innovations received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2019-2020) to promote and expand methodology and case studies. This project has brought together over 120 natural scientists, engineers, and gender experts in a series of collaborative workshop that drew talent from across the US, Europe, Canada, Asia, and, more recently, South Africa and Latin America. The project served as the intellectual foundations for the “gender dimension in research” requirements in the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 funding framework. A Center for Gendered Innovations in Science and Technology Research was founded in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2016.