Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of the History of Science
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/
Bio
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, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project. From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Schiebinger received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984 and is a leading international authority on gender in science and technology. Over the past thirty 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; gender in 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 findings at the United Nations in New York, February 2011 with an update spring 2014. In 2022, she prepared the background paper for the United Nations 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women’s priority theme, Innovation and Technological Change, and Education in the Digital Age for Achieving Gender Equality and The Empowerment of all Women and Girls. Since 2023, Gendered Innovations has been a member of the UNFPA Equity 2030 Alliance.
In 2011-2014, Schiebinger entered into major collaborations with the European Commission and the U.S. National Science Foundation to promote Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. This project draws experts from across the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Asia, and was presented at the European Parliament, July 2013 as Gendered Innovations: How Gender Analysis Contributes to Research. In 2018-2020, Schiebinger directed the European Commission Expert Group to produce Gendered Innovations 2: How Inclusive Analysis Contributes to Research and Innovation. Institutes for Gendered Innovations research opened in Soeul, South Korea, in 2015 and in Tokyo, Japan, in 2022.
Schiebinger’s work has been featured in Science: A Framework for Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis in Research: Funding Agencies Have Ample Room to Improve Their Policies (2022); Nature: Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering (2019); Nature: Design AI so that it's Fair (2018); Nature: Accounting for Sex and Gender Makes for Better Science (2020).
Her work in the eighteenth century investigates the circulation of knowledge in the Atlantic World. Her Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World reconceptualizes research in four areas: first and foremost knowledge of African contributions to early modern science; the historiography of race in science; the history of human experimentation; and the role of science in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Her prize-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World investigates women's indigenous knowledge of abortifacients and why this knowledge did not travel.
Londa Schiebinger has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2013), the Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden (2017), and the University of Valencia, Spain (2018); the Berlin Falling Walls Breakthrough Winner in Science & Innovation Management (2022). Her work has been translated into numerous languages. In 2022/23, she served as an advisor to the Berlin University Alliance.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, History
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Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Administrative Appointments
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Director, Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2013 - 2021)
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Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Maria Goeppert-Meyer Distinguished Visitor, Oldenburg University (2006 - 2006)
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Jantine Tammes Chair, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen (2005 - 2006)
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Director, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University (2004 - 2010)
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Director, Graduate Studies, History, Stanford University (2000 - 2021)
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Edwin E. Sparks Professor of the History of Science, Pennsylvania State University (2000 - 2004)
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Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (1999 - 2000)
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National Library of Medicine Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (1998 - 1998)
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Coordinator, Gender History Workshop, Pennsylvania State University (1996 - 1999)
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Founder, Gender History Workshop, Pennsylvania State University (1996 - 1999)
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Co-Director, Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Inter-College Program, Pennsylvania State University (1995 - 2004)
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Co-Founder, Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Inter-College Program, Pennsylvania State University (1995 - 2004)
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Visiting Professor, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Zentrum für Europa- und Nordamerikastudien (1995 - 1995)
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Founding Director, Women in the Sciences and Engineering Institute, Pennsylvania State University (1994 - 1996)
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Professor, History and Women Studies, Pennsylvania State University (1993 - 2000)
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Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University, Department of History (1992 - 1993)
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Associate Professor, History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University (1991 - 1993)
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Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1991 - 1992)
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Endowed Fellow in Humanities, Weiss University (1991 - 1991)
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Assistant Professor, History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University (1988 - 1991)
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Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (1986 - 1987)
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Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation (1985 - 1986)
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Lecturer, Stanford University, Values, Technology, Science, and Society Program (1984 - 1986)
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Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1983 - 1984)
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Fellowship, Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation (1982 - 1982)
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Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, History Department and the Committee on History and Literature (1977 - 1984)
Honors & Awards
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Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
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Honorary Doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2013)
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Distinguished Affiliated Professor, Technische Universität, Münichen (2011-)
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Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technische Universität, Munich (2011-)
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Innovation through Gender Award, European Union (2011 - 2012)
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Interdisciplinary Leadership Award, Women’s Health, Stanford Medical School (2010)
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Scholars Award, National Science Foundation (2007 - 2009)
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Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society (2005)
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J. Worth Estes Prize, History of Pharmacology, American Association for the History of Medicine (2005)
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Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association (2005)
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Faculty Scholar's Medal, Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University (2000)
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Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Humboldt Foundation (1999 - 2000)
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Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Nebraska (1996)
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Scholars Award, National Science Foundation (1996)
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Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science (1995)
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Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award, Pennsylvania State University (1994)
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History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society (1994)
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Scholars Award, National Science Foundation (1991 - 1993)
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Award for Enhancement of Undergraduate Instruction, Pennsylvania State University (1991)
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Roy C. Buck Essay Prize, Pennsylvania State University (1990)
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Rockefeller Foundation Humanist-in-Residence, Rutgers University (1988 - 1989)
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Graduate Scholar, Fulbright-Hayes, Germany (1980 - 1981)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Board of Trustees, Technische Universität München Institute for Advanced Studies (2014 - Present)
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Advisor, Task Force for Gender Equality, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School (2014 - Present)
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Advisor, European Commission Horizon 2020, Gender Experts Group (2014 - 2014)
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Advisor, ERA-NET, Promotion of Gender Equality in Research Institutions (2013 - Present)
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Advisory Committee Member, Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (2013 - Present)
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Advisory Board Member, European Commission, Gender Specific Mechanisms in Coronary Artery Disease in Europe (2013 - Present)
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Advisory Board Member, European Gender Medicine Network (2013 - Present)
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Member, International Reference Group, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2013 - Present)
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Advisor to the President, ETH Zürich (2011 - 2011)
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Consultant, European Union, Innovation through Gender (2011 - 2013)
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Consultant, United Nations, Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology (2010 - 2011)
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Advisory Board Member, Graduate School on Risk and Security, Technische Universität München (2011 - Present)
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Board Member, Women's Health Strategic Planning, Stanford Medical School (2010 - Present)
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Advisor, European Union project on Gendermedicine (EUGIM) (2009 - Present)
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Advisory Board, genSet, Portia Ltd (2009 - Present)
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Women's Health Multidisciplinary Leadership Committee Member, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Board of Trustees, RWTH Aachen (2007 - 2009)
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Advisory Board, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University (2007 - Present)
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Scientific Steering Committee Member, CIREM, Barcelona, and Université Libre de Bruxelles (2007 - Present)
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Stanford Representative, MIT9 University meeting (2006 - 2006)
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Stanford Representative, MIT9 University meeting (2009 - 2009)
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Advisory Board, Gender, Economy, and Long-Term Historical Change project, Uppsala Universitet (2005 - Present)
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Advisory Board, Asian Network for the Study of Women and Science (2005 - Present)
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Advisory Board, European Union, History Project (2004 - 2007)
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Advisory Board, Center for WorkLife Law at University of California, Hastings (2005 - Present)
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Consultant, American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, Tercentenary of Carolus Linnaeus’s Birth (2003 - 2007)
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Consultant, Ministère de la Recherche, Paris, Mission Parité en Sciences et Technologies (2001 - 2004)
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Advisory Board, Maria Sibylla Merian International Exhibition, Insectarium de Montréal (2000 - 2002)
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Consultant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1995 - 1996)
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Editorial Board Member, Journal of Women's Health and Gynecology (2013 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Gender Research (2010 - Present)
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Advisory Board Member, Medicine Studies: An International Journal for History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine& Allied Sciences (2008 - Present)
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Advisory Board Member, Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society (2004 - 2009)
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Board of Advisors, Book Reviews, Science (2001 - 2007)
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Editorial Board Member, Science Studies, Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies (2005 - 2007)
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Board of Editors, Eighteenth-Century Studies (1995 - 1997)
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Advisory Board, Eighteenth-Century Studies (1993 - 1995)
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Editorial Board Member, Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1994 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (1994 - Present)
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Editorial Board Member, Gender and History (2000 - 2004)
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Editorial Board Member, Journal for the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1994 - Present)
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Reviewer, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania (2011 - 2011)
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Appointments Committee Member, History Department, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Affirmative Action Committee Member, History Department, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Member, Committee to Examine the Non-Academic Council Appointment Processes, Stanford University (2008 - 2009)
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Member, Committee on Research, Stanford University (2007 - 2009)
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Member, Diversity Cabinet, Stanford University (2006 - 2007)
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Member, Diversity Cabinet, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Member, New Strategies Advisory Group, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Member, Clifford Prize Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studios (2005 - 2006)
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Judge, Women in Technology International, Hall of Fame (2005 - 2005)
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Member, Leo Gershoy Award Committee, American Historical Association (2002 - 2004)
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Chair, Leo Gershoy Award Committee, American Historical Association (2004 - 2005)
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Member, History of Women in Science Prize Committee, History of Science Society (2003 - 2006)
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Chair, History of Women in Science Prize Committee, History of Science Society (2005 - 2006)
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Member, National Science Foundation, Review Panel, ADVANCE Program (2002 - 2002)
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Member, Advisory Committee, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Pennsylvania State University (2001 - 2002)
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Member, Prize Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1995 - 1998)
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Chair of Committee, Prize Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1998 - 1998)
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Member, Dibner Historian of Science, History of Science Society (1994 - 1995)
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Co-Chair, Women's Committee, History of Science Society (1993 - 1995)
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Member, Book Prize Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (1990 - 1991)
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Member, Book Prize Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (2001 - 2002)
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Member, Article Prize Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (1988 - 1990)
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Research Associate, Women's Center, Barnard College (1986 - 1987)
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Visiting Scholar, Department of History, New York University (1986 - 1987)
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Member, Western Culture Curriculum Committee, Stanford University (1984 - 1986)
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Co-founder (with Evelyn Fox Keller), Boston-Area Colloquium for Feminist Theory (1982 - 1984)
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Chair and Co-founder, Organizing Committee, Women's History Week, Harvard University (1982 - 1984)
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Resident Tutor, Winthrop House, Harvard University (1979 - 1980)
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Program in History & Philosophy of Science
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Science, Technology and Society
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Harvard University, History (1984)
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M.A., Harvard University, History (1977)
2024-25 Courses
- Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 144 (Win) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 44Q (Win) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 144 (Win) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 44Q (Win) - New Directions in Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
HISTORY 244F, HISTORY 344F (Spr) - People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science
HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C (Spr) -
Independent Studies (11)
- Advanced Individual Work
STS 299 (Aut) - Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Win, Spr) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Paper
MTL 390 (Win, Spr) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Win, Spr) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Advanced Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 144 (Spr) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 44Q (Spr) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 144 (Spr) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 44Q (Spr) - New Directions in Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
FEMGEN 344F, HISTORY 244F, HISTORY 344F (Win) - Part II: People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science
HISTORY 443D (Spr) - People, Plants, and Medicine: Atlantic World Amerindian, African, and European Science
FEMGEN 443C, HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C, HISTORY 443C (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 144 (Aut) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
FEMGEN 44Q (Aut) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 144 (Aut) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 44 (Aut) - Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
HISTORY 44Q (Aut) - Innovations in Inclusive Design in Tech
FEMGEN 344F, HISTORY 244F, HISTORY 344F (Spr) - People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine
HISTORY 243C, HISTORY 343C (Spr)
- Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
Stanford Advisees
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Undergraduate Major Advisor
Angeline Yu -
Doctoral (Program)
Ciel Haviland, Lucy Stark
All Publications
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Reflecting on Progress in and Establishing Benchmarks for Sex and Gender Health Education
ACADEMIC MEDICINE
2024; 99 (1): 16-21
Abstract
Sex and gender influence every aspect of human health; thus, sex- and gender-related topics should be incorporated in all aspects of health education curricula. Sex and gender health education (SGHE) is the rigorous, intersectional, data-driven integration of sex and gender into all elements of health education. A multisectoral group of thought leaders has collaborated to advance SGHE since 2012. This cross-sector collaboration to advance SGHE has been successful on several fronts, primarily developing robust interprofessional SGHE programs, hosting a series of international SGHE summits, developing sex- and gender-specific resources, and broadening the collaboration beyond medical education. However, other deeply entrenched challenges have proven more difficult to address, including accurate and consistent sex and gender reporting in research publications, broadening institutional support for SGHE, and the development and implementation of evaluation plans for assessing learner outcomes and the downstream effects of SGHE on patient care. This commentary reflects on progress made in SGHE over the first decade of the current collaboration (2012-2022), articulates a vision for next steps to advance SGHE, and proposes 4 benchmarks to guide the next decade of SGHE: (1) integrate sex, gender, and intersectionality across health curricula; (2) develop sex- and gender-specific resources for health professionals; (3) improve sex and gender reporting in research publications; and (4) develop evaluation plans to assess learner and patient outcomes.
View details for DOI 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005444
View details for Web of Science ID 001134819400019
View details for PubMedID 37734039
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Exploring climate-induced sex-based differences in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to mitigate biodiversity loss.
Nature communications
2023; 14 (1): 4787
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-40316-8
View details for PubMedID 37587108
View details for PubMedCentralID 5326506
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Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
2023
View details for DOI 10.1002/fee.2652
View details for Web of Science ID 001005320800001
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Menstrual products: A comparable Life Cycle Assessment
CLEANER ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
2022; 7
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cesys.2022.100096
View details for Web of Science ID 000906613200002
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A framework for sex, gender, and diversity analysis in research.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
2022; 377 (6614): 1492-1495
Abstract
Funding agencies have ample room to improve their policies.
View details for DOI 10.1126/science.abp9775
View details for PubMedID 36173857
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Integrating Sex, Gender, and Intersectional Analysis into Bioengineering
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
2022; 22
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cobme.2022.100388
View details for Web of Science ID 000804433300009
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Sex, gender, and intersectional puzzles in health and biomedicine research.
Med (New York, N.Y.)
2022; 3 (5): 284-287
Abstract
Excellent research integrates sex, gender, and/or intersectional analysis-from the very beginning and throughout the research process. This article highlights techniques for analyzing sex, how sex and sex interact, how sex and gender interact, and the need for intersectional analysis. Designing sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into research is one crucial component contributing to world-class health and biomedicine.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.medj.2022.04.003
View details for PubMedID 35584647
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Diversifying history: A large-scale analysis of changes in researcher demographics and scholarly agendas.
PloS one
1800; 17 (1): e0262027
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In recent years, interest has grown in whether and to what extent demographic diversity sparks discovery and innovation in research. At the same time, topic modeling has been employed to discover differences in what women and men write about. This study engages these two strands of scholarship to explore associations between changing researcher demographics and research questions asked in the discipline of history. Specifically, we analyze developments in history as women entered the field.METHODS: We focus on author gender in diachronic analysis of history dissertations from 1980 (when online data is first available) to 2015 and a select set of general history journals from 1950 to 2015. We use correlated topic modeling and network visualizations to map developments in research agendas over time and to examine how women and men have contributed to these developments.RESULTS: Our summary snapshot of aggregate interests of women and men for the period 1950 to 2015 identifies new topics associated with women authors: gender and women's history, body history, family and households, consumption and consumerism, and sexuality. Diachronic analysis demonstrates that while women pioneered topics such as gender and women's history or the history of sexuality, these topics broaden over time to become methodological frameworks that historians widely embraced and that changed in interesting ways as men engaged with them. Our analysis of history dissertations surface correlations between advisor/advisee gender pairings and choice of dissertation topic.CONCLUSIONS: Overall, this quantitative longitudinal study suggests that the growth in women historians has coincided with the broadening of research agendas and an increased sensitivity to new topics and methodologies in the field.
View details for DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0262027
View details for PubMedID 35045091
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The Integration of Sex and Gender Considerations into Biomedical Research: Lessons from International Funding Agencies.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
2021
Abstract
To improve the outcomes of research and medicine, government-based international research funding agencies have implemented various types of policies and mechanisms with respect to sex as a biological variable and gender as a sociocultural factor. After the 1990s, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), and the European Commission (EC) began 1) requesting that applicants address sex and gender considerations in grant proposals and 2) offering resources to help the scientific community integrate sex and gender into biomedical research. Although, it is too early to analyze data on the success of all of the policies and mechanisms implemented, here we review the use of both carrots (incentives) and sticks (requirements) developed to motivate researchers and the entire scientific research enterprise to consider sex and gender influences on health and in science. The NIH focused on sex as a biological variable (SABV) aligned with an initiative to enhance reproducibility through rigor and transparency; CIHR instituted a sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) policy; and the EC required the integration of the "gender dimension", which incorporates sex, gender, and intersectional analysis into research and innovation. Other global efforts are briefly summarized. Although we are still learning what works, we share lessons learned to improve the integration of sex and gender considerations into research. In conjunction with refining and expanding the policies of funding agencies and mechanisms, private funders/philanthropic groups, editors of peer-reviewed journals, academic institutions, professional organizations, ethics boards, healthcare systems, and industry also need to make concerted efforts to integrate sex and gender into research, and we all must bridge across silos to promote system-wide solutions throughout the biomedical enterprise. For example, policies that encourage researchers to disaggregate data by sex and gender, the development of tools to better measure gender effects, or policies similar to SABV and/or SGBA adopted by private funders would accelerate progress. Uptake, accountability for, and a critical appraisal of sex and gender throughout the biomedical enterprise will be crucial to achieving the goal of relevant, reproducible, replicable, and responsible science that will lead to better evidence-based personalized care for all, but especially for women.
View details for DOI 10.1210/clinem/dgab434
View details for PubMedID 34137862
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Ensuring that biomedical AI benefits diverse populations.
EBioMedicine
2021: 103358
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can potentially impact many aspects of human health, from basic research discovery to individual health assessment. It is critical that these advances in technology broadly benefit diverse populations from around the world. This can be challenging because AI algorithms are often developed on non-representative samples and evaluated based on narrow metrics. Here we outline key challenges to biomedical AI in outcome design, data collection and technology evaluation, and use examples from precision health to illustrate how bias and health disparity may arise in each stage. We then suggest both short term approaches-more diverse data collection and AI monitoring-and longer term structural changes in funding, publications, and education to address these challenges.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103358
View details for PubMedID 33962897
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Gender-related variables for health research.
Biology of sex differences
2021; 12 (1): 23
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In this paper, we argue for Gender as a Sociocultural Variable (GASV) as a complement to Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV). Sex (biology) and gender (sociocultural behaviors and attitudes) interact to influence health and disease processes across the lifespan-which is currently playing out in the COVID-19 pandemic. This study develops a gender assessment tool-the Stanford Gender-Related Variables for Health Research-for use in clinical and population research, including large-scale health surveys involving diverse Western populations. While analyzing sex as a biological variable is widely mandated, gender as a sociocultural variable is not, largely because the field lacks quantitative tools for analyzing the influence of gender on health outcomes.METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive review of English-language measures of gender from 1975 to 2015 to identify variables across three domains: gender norms, gender-related traits, and gender relations. This yielded 11 variables tested with 44 items in three US cross-sectional survey populations: two internet-based (N = 2051; N = 2135) and a patient-research registry (N = 489), conducted between May 2017 and January 2018.RESULTS: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses reduced 11 constructs to 7 gender-related variables: caregiver strain, work strain, independence, risk-taking, emotional intelligence, social support, and discrimination. Regression analyses, adjusted for age, ethnicity, income, education, sex assigned at birth, and self-reported gender identity, identified associations between these gender-related variables and self-rated general health, physical and mental health, and health-risk behaviors.CONCLUSION: Our new instrument represents an important step toward developing more comprehensive and precise survey-based measures of gender in relation to health. Our questionnaire is designed to shed light on how specific gender-related behaviors and attitudes contribute to health and disease processes, irrespective of-or in addition to-biological sex and self-reported gender identity. Use of these gender-related variables in experimental studies, such as clinical trials, may also help us understand if gender factors play an important role as treatment-effect modifiers and would thus need to be further considered in treatment decision-making.
View details for DOI 10.1186/s13293-021-00366-3
View details for PubMedID 33618769
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Analysing how sex and gender interact
LANCET
2020; 396 (10262): 1553–54
View details for DOI 10.1101/2020.09.17.20196824
View details for Web of Science ID 000588778800016
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Analysing how sex and gender interact.
Lancet (London, England)
2020; 396 (10262): 1553–54
View details for DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32346-1
View details for PubMedID 33189167
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Expanding the Agnotological Toolbox: Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis
SCIENCE AND THE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE: WHEN THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE IS THWARTED
2020: 273–305
View details for Web of Science ID 000548563600011
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Sex and gender in health research: updating policy to reflect evidence
MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA
2019
View details for DOI 10.5694/mja2.50426
View details for Web of Science ID 000498677500001
View details for PubMedID 31760662
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Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering.
Nature
2019; 575 (7781): 137–46
Abstract
The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible science. Incorporating sex and gender analysis into experimental design has enabled advancements across many disciplines, such as improved treatment of heart disease and insights into the societal impact of algorithmic bias. Here we discuss the potential for sex and gender analysis to foster scientific discovery, improve experimental efficiency and enable social equality. We provide a roadmap for sex and gender analysis across scientific disciplines and call on researchers, funding agencies, peer-reviewed journals and universities to coordinate efforts to implement robust methods of sex and gender analysis.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1657-6
View details for PubMedID 31695204
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Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
2018; 2 (10): 726–34
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-018-0433-1
View details for Web of Science ID 000446616800013
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Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation.
Nature human behaviour
2018; 2 (10): 726-734
Abstract
Gender diversity has the potential to drive scientific discovery and innovation. Here, we distinguish three approaches to gender diversity: diversity in research teams, diversity in research methods and diversity in research questions. While gender diversity is commonly understood to refer only to the gender composition of research teams, fully realizing the potential of diversity for science and innovation also requires attention to the methods employed and questions raised in scientific knowledge-making. We provide a framework for understanding the best ways to support the three approaches to gender diversity across four interdependent domains - from research teams to the broader disciplines in which they are embedded to research organizations and ultimately to the different societies that shape them through specific gender norms and policies. Our analysis demonstrates that realizing the benefits of diversity for science requires careful management of these four interdependent domains.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-018-0433-1
View details for PubMedID 31406295
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Design AI so that it's fair
NATURE
2018; 559 (7714): 324–26
View details for DOI 10.1038/d41586-018-05707-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000439059800025
View details for PubMedID 30018439
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Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2018; 115 (16): E3635–E3644
Abstract
Word embeddings are a powerful machine-learning framework that represents each English word by a vector. The geometric relationship between these vectors captures meaningful semantic relationships between the corresponding words. In this paper, we develop a framework to demonstrate how the temporal dynamics of the embedding helps to quantify changes in stereotypes and attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. We integrate word embeddings trained on 100 y of text data with the US Census to show that changes in the embedding track closely with demographic and occupation shifts over time. The embedding captures societal shifts-e.g., the women's movement in the 1960s and Asian immigration into the United States-and also illuminates how specific adjectives and occupations became more closely associated with certain populations over time. Our framework for temporal analysis of word embedding opens up a fruitful intersection between machine learning and quantitative social science.
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Gendered Innovation in Health and Medicine.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
2018; 1065: 643–54
Abstract
Excellence in research requires careful attention to sex and gender analysis. The Gendered Innovations project, initiated in 2009, develops state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis for basic and applied research. This chapter reviews recent developments in cardiovascular disease for (1) analyzing sex, (2) analyzing gender, and (3) policy initiatives.
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Gendered Innovation in Health and Medicine
SEX-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS OF CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION
2018; 1065: 643-654
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One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
2017; 1 (11): 791–96
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One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis.
Nature human behaviour
2017; 1 (11): 791-796
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Gender and sex analysis is increasingly recognized as a key factor in creating better medical research and health care 1-7 . Using a sample of more than 1.5 million medical research papers, our study examined the potential link between women's participation in medical science and attention to gender-related and sex-related factors in disease-specific research. Adjusting for variations across countries, disease topics and medical research areas, we compared the participation of women authors in studies that do and do not involve gender and sex analysis. Overall, our results show a robust positive correlation between women's authorship and the likelihood of a study including gender and sex analysis. These findings corroborate discussions of how women's participation in medical science links to research outcomes, and show the mutual benefits of promoting both the scientific advancement of women and the integration of gender and sex analysis into medical research.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-017-0235-x
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Opinion: Gender diversity leads to better science.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2017; 114 (8): 1740-1742
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Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research
FASEB JOURNAL
2017; 31 (1): 29-34
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In June 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a Guide notice (NOT-OD-15-102) that highlighted the expectation of the NIH that the possible role of sex as a biologic variable be factored into research design, analyses, and reporting of vertebrate animal and human studies. Anticipating these guidelines, the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, in October 2014, convened key stakeholders to discuss methods and techniques for integrating sex as a biologic variable in preclinical research. The workshop focused on practical methods, experimental design, and approaches to statistical analyses in the use of both male and female animals, cells, and tissues in preclinical research. Workshop participants also considered gender as a modifier of biology. This article builds on the workshop and is meant as a guide to preclinical investigators as they consider methods and techniques for inclusion of both sexes in preclinical research and is not intended to prescribe exhaustive/specific approaches for compliance with the new NIH policy.-Miller, L. R., Marks, C., Becker, J. B., Hurn, P. D., Chen, W.-J., Woodruff, T., McCarthy, M. M., Sohrabji, F., Schiebinger, L., Wetherington, C. L., Makris, S., Arnold, A. P., Einstein, G., Miller, V. M., Sandberg, K., Maier, S., Cornelison, T. L., Clayton, J. A. Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research.
View details for DOI 10.1096/fj.201600781R
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Opinion: Gender diversity leads to better science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017; 114 (8): 1740-1742
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER AND HEALTH CONCEPTUAL AND APPLIED GLOBAL CONCERNS Foreword
PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER AND HEALTH: CONCEPTUAL AND APPLIED GLOBAL CONCERNS
2017: XI-XVI
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Editorial policies for sex and gender analysis.
Lancet (London, England)
2016; 388 (10062): 2841–42
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Gender Matters in Biological Research and Medical Practice.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2016; 67 (2): 136–38
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Opinion: Sex inclusion in basic research drives discovery.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2015; 112 (17): 5257–58
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Innovations generated. Case Study: Science. The Genetics of sex determination
AVANT
2015; 6 (1): 27-39
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Scientific research must take gender into account.
Nature
2014; 507 (7490): 9-?
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- Women and Gender in Science and Technology London: Routledge. 2014
- Adding Sex-and-Gender Dimensions to Your Research Science Careers 2014
- Natural History The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History edited by Miller, J. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2014
- Following the Story: From the Mind Has No Sex? to Gendered Innovations Writing about Science Lives: (Auto)biography, Gender, and Genre edited by Govoni, P., Franceschi, Z. A. Göttingen: V&R Unipress. 2014: 43–54
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Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
2013; 26 (3): 364-382
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Embedding Concepts of Sex and Gender Health Differences into Medical Curricula
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH
2013; 22 (3): 194-202
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Sex, a biological variable, and gender, a cultural variable, define the individual and affect all aspects of disease prevention, development, diagnosis, progression, and treatment. Sex and gender are essential elements of individualized medicine. However, medical education rarely considers such topics beyond the physiology of reproduction. To reduce health care disparities and to provide optimal, cost-effective medical care for individuals, concepts of sex and gender health need to become embedded into education and training of health professionals. In September 2012, Mayo Clinic hosted a 2-day workshop bringing together leading experts from 13 U.S. schools of medicine and schools of public health, Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women's Health (HRSA OWH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), and the Canadian Institute of Health and Gender. The purpose of this workshop was to articulate the need to integrate sex- and gender-based content into medical education and training, to identify gaps in current medical curricula, to consider strategies to embed concepts of sex and gender health into health professional curricula, and to identify existing resources to facilitate and implement change. This report summarizes these proceedings, recommendations, and action items from the workshop.
View details for DOI 10.1089/jwh.2012.4193
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- Gendered Innovations: How Gender Analysis Contributes to Research edited by Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. 2013
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Género, Conocimiento e Investigacíon edited by Reyes, I. P., Rodríguez, A. P. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés. 2012: 19–40
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Gendered Innovations in Biomedicine and Public Health Research
SEX AND GENDER ASPECTS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE
2012: 5-8
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- Vom Gender Bias zu geschlechterspezifischen Innovationen – Eine Begegnung mit Londa Schiebinger Züricher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte edited by Purtschert, P. 2012: 201–222
- Gendered Innovations in Biomedicine and Public Health Research Sex and Gender Aspects in Clinical Medicine edited by Prigione, S. O., Zagrosek, V. R. London: Springer Verlag. 2012: 5–8
- Getting More Women into Science: Knowledge Issues Gender and Science: Studies across Cultures edited by Kumar, N. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2012: 3–19
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering
INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2011; 36 (2): 154-167
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Women in science and medicine
LANCET
2011; 377 (9768): 811
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Academic Couples: Implications for Medical School Faculty Recruitment and Retention
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
2011; 212 (3): 310-319
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Academic couples constitute 36% of the US professoriate. Universities are in the midst of a major transition in hiring practices to support these and other faculty with working partners. However, less is known about academic couples among medical school faculty and surgical specialties specifically. This study was designed to address this gap.In 2006-2007, the Michelle R Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University designed and administered the "Managing Academic Careers Survey" to nearly 30,000 full-time faculty across all academic fields at leading research universities nationwide. This study included 2,475 medical school faculty survey respondents at 12 participating institutions. Main outcomes measures were academic partner status; number of journal articles/chapters during career; and applications to other academic position(s) in last 5 years.A total of 73.3% of medical school faculty respondents were in dual-career partnerships (where both partners actively pursue employment) and 32.2% had an academic partner. Sixty-nine percent of academic partners were also in medical schools. Women faculty were more likely than men to have an academic partner. Among surgery faculty, 40% of women had an academic partner, as compared with 29.3% of men. In fully adjusted regression models, faculty with academic partners had higher publication counts than other faculty, and had higher odds of applying to other academic positions.Academic couples constitute one-third of all medical school faculty. They represent a productive and potentially mobile component of the medical faculty workforce. Because women had a higher rate of academic partnering, dual-career academic hiring policies are especially important for recruitment and retention of female faculty in surgical specialties.
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- Science, Gender and Beyond: An International Perspective Wissenschaft und Gender edited by Magerl, G., Neck, R., Spiel, C. Vienna: Boehlau. 2011: 9–31
- Women in Science and Medicine The Lancet 2011; 377: 811
- Gli stereotipi fanno male alla salute Ingenere 2011
- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges. Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Science, Technology and Business edited by Leicht-Scholten, C., Breuer, E., Callies, N., Wolffram, A. Opladen: Budrich UniPress. 2011: 161–174
- Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader edited by Harding, S. Durham: Duke University Press. 2011: 110–126
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Gendered Innovations: A New Approach for Nursing Science
BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR NURSING
2010; 12 (2): 156-161
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Considerable sex and gender bias has been recognized within the field of medicine. Investigators have used sex and gender analysis to reevaluate studies and outcomes and generate new perspectives and new questions regarding differential diagnoses and treatments of men and women. Sex and gender analysis acts as an experimental control to provide critical scientific rigor; researchers who ignore it risk ignoring a possible source of error in past, current, and future science. In this article, the authors introduce some tools of sex and gender analysis and illustrate the concept of gendered innovations by demonstrating through examples how this type of analysis has profoundly enhanced human knowledge in health and disease. The authors also provide recommendations for incorporating the concepts of sex and gender analysis into nursing education and research.
View details for DOI 10.1177/1099800410375108
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- Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering Seoul: Yonsei University Press. 2010
- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies Dual Career Couples in Theorie und Praxis edited by Funk, J., Gramespacher, E., Rothäusler, I. Leverkusen Opladen: Barbara Budrich Verlag. 2010: 113–126
- Housework is an Academic Issue Academe 2010: 39 - 44
- Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Ethik – Geschlecht – Medizin. Körpergeschichten in politischer Reflexion edited by Ernst, W. Berlin: LIT-Verlag. 2010: 41–69
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Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science (Book Review)
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
2009; 42 (4): 626-628
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- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies Committee on the Status of Women in Economics Profession Newsletter, American Economic Association 2009: 11 - 14
- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies The American Economics 2009
- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies Association CSWEP Newsletter 2009
- Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500 - 1825 edited by Bailyn, B. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2009: 294–328
- Dual Career Academic Couples: University Strategies, Opportunities, Policies RWTH, Aachen 2009
- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Routledge. 2009
- Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause (Book Review) Lancet 2009; 373: 1072
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The art of medicine - Exotic abortifacients and lost knowledge
LANCET
2008; 371 (9614): 718-719
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- Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering Stanford University Press. 2008
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Seoul: Booksea Publishing Co.. 2008
- West Indian Abortifacients and the Making of Ignorance Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance edited by Proctor, R. N., Schiebinger, L. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2008: 149–162
- The Correspondence of Dr. William Hunter (Book review) Annals of Science 2008
- Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance edited by Schiebinger, L., Proctor, R. N. Stanford University Press. 2008
- Why Aren't More Women in Science? Top Researchers Debate the Evidence (Book Review) American Scientist 2008: 428-430
- Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out (Book Review) American Scientist 2008
- Getting more Women into Science: Knowledge Issues Historia, Saude, Manguinho 2008; 15
- Gender Analysis in Colonial Science Recodierungen des Wissens: Stand und Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung in Naturwissenschaften und Technik edited by Lucht, P., Paulitz, T. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. 2008
- Contraception: A History (Book review) Lancet 2008; 372: 438
- Getting more Women into Science: Knowledge Issues Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 2007; 30: 365 - 478
- Naming and Knowing: The Global Politics of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Nomenclatures Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe edited by Smith, P., Schmidt, B. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007: 90–105
- Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Kosakusha Publishing Co.. 2007
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PRES 12-Gendered innovations in the sciences
AMER CHEMICAL SOC. 2006
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- Exotische Abtribungsmittel: Geschlechtliches Wissen im 18. Jahrhungert in der Karibik Deproduktion—Schwangerschaftsabbruch im internationalen Kontext edited by Diehl, S. Berlin: Alibri. 2006
- Genderbepaalde vernieuwingen in der Natuurwetenschappen Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 2006; 9: 16 - 27
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Athens: Katoptro. 2006
- L’orientation de la connaissance par les critères de genre dans la science du xviiie siècle Genre, science, recherche edited by Cacoauault, M., Gardey, D. Paris: CNRS. 2006: 143–146
- Sites and Boundaries: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion Early Modern Science, vol. 3 of the Cambridge History of Science edited by Daston, L., Park, K. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006: 192–205
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Bodies in contact: Rethinking colonial encounters in world history. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2005; 110 (5): 1488-1489
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Agnotology and exotic abortifacients: The cultural production of ignorance in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
2005; 149 (3): 316-343
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- Nature's Unruly Body Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century edited by Bender, J., Marrinan, M. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005: 25–43
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Colonial Botany Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Introduction
COLONIAL BOTANY: SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
2005: 1-+
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Prospecting for Drugs European Naturalists in the West Indies
COLONIAL BOTANY: SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
2005: 119-+
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- Exotic Abortifacients: The Gender Politics of Plants in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Frontier of Gender Studies (Japanese journal) 2005; 3: 204 - 221
- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics edited by Schiebinger, L., Swan, C. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005
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Useful bodies: Humans in the service of medical science in the twentieth century. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2004; 109 (4): 1200-1200
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- Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Harvard University Press. 2004
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Madrid: Cátedra Ediciones. 2004
- Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment (Book Review) Nature Medicine 2004; 10: 669
- Feminist History of Colonial Science Hypatia 2004; 19: 233 - 254
- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Rutgers University Press. 2004
- Femmes universitaires en Allemagne Les femmes dans l’histoire du CNRS edited by Kaspi, A. 2004: 119–127
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Women's health and clinical trials
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
2003; 112 (7): 973-977
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Women have traditionally been underrepresented in clinical trials. In order to translate recent advances in our understanding of the molecular and physiological bases of sex differences into new therapeutics and health practices, sound sex-specific clinical data are imperative. Since the founding of the Office of Research on Women's Health within the Office of the Director at the NIH in 1990, inequities in federally funded biomedical research, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases affecting women in the US have been reviewed. Discussed herein is the evolution of gender-related research innovations, primarily within the last decade, and strategies and challenges involved in the success of this recent development.
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Skelettestreit
ISIS
2003; 94 (2): 307-313
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Michael Stolberg claims there was a broad movement in the sixteenth century toward sexing skeletons and offers Felix Platter's singular 1583 female skeleton and Caspar Bauhin's 1597 reproduction of that skeleton as evidence. He admits that these illustrations did not become a standard feature of anatomical textbooks, though he maintains (erroneously) that the descriptions of these skeletons became "canonical." Stolberg does not appreciate the extent to which Platter's female skeleton was an anomaly. Distinctively female-sexed skeletons flooded Europe after about 1730, and, importantly, anatomists at the time perceived that these depictions were radically new. Indeed, widespread and protracted debates erupted over the exact features of the female skeleton. These anatomical illustrations emerged within a novel political climate, where sex in the body was newly seen as grounding gender roles in new social regimes. The story of the European study of sexual differences is not one of slow and steady accretion of positive knowledge, as Stolberg implies. That story is fraught with changing reinterpretations and relocations of difference, and new meanings attached to new kinds of sameness and difference within differing cultural contexts. It is wrong to judge foundational shifts in scientific culture merely by firsts.
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Jeanne Baret: the first woman to circumnavigate the globe
ENDEAVOUR
2003; 27 (1): 22-25
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The voyages of scientific discovery conjure in our minds images of Sir Hans Sloane bioprospecting in Jamaica in 1687 or Joseph Banks voyaging aboard the Endeavour to Tahiti and New Zealand in 1768. But women also set foot on rickety and unsure ocean-going vessels in the 18th century in the service of science. The German-born Maria Sibylla Merian voyaged from Amsterdam to Surinam in South America in 1699 to search for exotic caterpillars. She sought one that would produce a thread to rival silk, a costly and much sought-after fabric in early-modern Europe. In the process, she produced one of the most celebrated 18th-century natural history books.
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- Gender and Science Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science New York: Oxford University Press. 2003: 327–329
- The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science Science in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4 of the Cambridge History of Science (Translated into Chinese) edited by Porter, R. 2003
- Teaching Gender Analytics in Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Innovations in Education, History of Science Society Newsletter 2003: 4 - 5
- The Philosopher's Beard: Women and Gender in Science Science in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4 of the Cambridge History of Science edited by Porter, R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003: 184–210
- The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Science Geschlechterarrangements in globaler und historischer Perspektive edited by Kramer, H., Naegele, R. 2003
- Human Experimentation in the Eighteenth Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing The Moral Authority of Nature edited by Daston, L., Vidal, F. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003: 384–408
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Primatology, archaeology, and human origins - Feminist interventions
Conference on Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes - Women in American Research Universities
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL. 2003: 247–256
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Subject matter: Technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2002; 107 (1): 183-184
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- Has Feminism Changed Science? Dulnyouk Publishing Co.. 2002
- Has Feminism Changed Science? Kosakusha Publishing Co.. 2002
- Sperimentazione umana: sesso e razza nel XVIII secolo Corpi e Storia. pratiche, diritti, simboli edited by Filippini, N. M., Plebani, T., Scattigno, A. 2002: 193–212
- Mainstreaming Gender Analysis into Science Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 2002: 381–394
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Sexual chemistry - A history of the contraceptive pill (Book Review)
SCIENCE
2001; 294 (5549): 2106-2106
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Making the body beautiful: A cultural history of aesthetic surgery (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2001; 106 (1): 134-135
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- Has Feminism Changed Science? Universidade do Sagrado Coração. 2001
- Women and Science: Why Does It Matter? Women and Science: Making Change Happen edited by Colosimo, A., Degan, B., Dewandre, N. 2001: 16–25
- The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction American Studies 2001; 42 (2): 161-162
- Oxford Companion to the Body edited by Blakemore, C., Jennett, S., Schiebinger, L., Cuthbert, A., Porter, R., Sears, T., Tansey, T. Oxford University Press. 2001
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Lisbon: Pandora Ediçioes. 2001
- Quelle parité pour la recherche biomédicale? La Recherche 2001: 2 - 5
- Has Feminism Changed Science? Onze Alma Mater 2001; 55: 444-61
- The Private Life of Plants: Sexual Politics in Carl Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte edited by Hagner, M. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 2001: 107–33
- Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine edited by Schiebinger, L., Creager, A., Lunbeck, E. University of Chicago Press. 2001
- Collecting Body Parts: Georges Cuvier's Hottentot Venus Concepts and Symbols of the Eighteenth Century in Europe edited by Bödeker, H. E., Steinbrügge, L. Berlin: Nomos Verlag. 2001: 23–36
- The Door in the Dream:Conversations with Eminent Women in Science Quarterly Review of Biology 2001; 76: 339
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Linnaeus - Nature and nation (Book Review)
SCIENCE
2000; 287 (5459): 1761-1761
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- Has Feminism Changed Science? NVOX 2000; 25 (3): 114-117
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Exotic abortifacients: the global politics of plants in the 18th century
ENDEAVOUR
2000; 24 (3): 117-121
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- Has Feminism Changed Science? Jahrbuch 2000 des Collegium Helveticum der ETH Zürich edited by Nowotny, H., Weiss, M. 2000: 273–92
- Has Feminism Changed Science? Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society special issue: Feminisms at the Millennium 2000; 25: 1171-6
- Women in Science The Reader's Guide to the History of Science edited by Hessenbruch, A. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000: 287–288
- Has Feminism Changed Science? München: Beck Verlag. 2000
- Gender and Sex The Reader's Guide to the History of Science edited by Hessenbruch, A. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000: 760–762
- Feminism and the Body edited by Schiebinger, L. Oxford University Press. 2000
- Gender The Reader's Guide to the History of Science edited by Hessenbruch, A. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000: 283–285
- Has Feminism Changed Science? Naturwissenschaft und Naturwissenschafts-Kritik aus feministischer Sicht edited by Thulmann, H. 2000: 63–75
- Women’s Studies in Archaeology Historica 2000; 23: 24-5
- Creating Sustainable Science The Gender and Science Reader edited by Lederman, M., Batsch, I. New York: Routledge. 2000
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Women, science, and medicine, 1500-1700: Mothers and sisters of the royal society. (Book Review)
ISIS
1999; 90 (3): 587-589
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How women contribute
SCIENCE
1999; 285 (5429): 835-835
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- Has Feminism Changed Science? Figuration: Gender, Literatur, Kultur 1999: 50 - 64
- Has Feminism Changed Science? Harvard University Press. 1999
- Gender Studies of STS: A Look Toward the Future Science, Technology, and Human Values 1999; 4: 95-106
- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy Hyosho to Shite No Shintai Toyko: Taishukan Shoten. 1999
- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy Sexuality edited by Nye, R. A. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999: 42–82
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Making natural knowledge: Constructivism and the history of science. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
1998; 103 (5): 1554-1555
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- Lost Knowledge, Bodies of Ignorance, and the Poverty of Taxonomy as Illustrated by the Curious Fate of Flos Pavonis, an Abortifacient Picturing Science, Producing Art edited by Jones, C., Galison, P. New York: Routledge. 1998: 125–144
- The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray The Women's Review of Books 1998
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The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 - Porter,R, Hall,L (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
1997; 69 (2): 333-335
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The moral sex: Woman's nature in the French enlightenment - Steinbrugge,L (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
1997; 102 (3): 824-825
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- The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Science Frauenmacht und Männerherrschaft: Geschlechterbeziehungen im Kulturvergleich 1997; 2: 115-20
- Maria Winkelmann and the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe: Readings from Isis edited by Dear, P. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997: 305–31
- A History of the Breast Women's Review of Books 1997: 10-11
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Creating sustainable science + Gender studies and the practice of science
OSIRIS
1997; 12: 201-216
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- Verlorenes Wissen, Systeme der Ignoranz und die Beschränktheit der Taxonomie dargestellt am Beispiel der Flos Pavonis, einem Abortivum Frauen, Kunst, Wissenschaf 1997; 23: 7 - 28
- Gender in Early Modern Science History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe edited by Kelley, D. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. 1997: 313–334
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Women scientists in America: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972 - Rossiter,MW (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
1996; 83 (2): 683-684
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Cultivating women, cultivating science: Flora's daughters and botany in England 1760 to 1860 - Shteir,AB (Book Review)
NATURE
1996; 382 (6593): 683-684
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The loves of the plants
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
1996; 274 (2): 110-115
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- Wissenschaftlerinnen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung Geschichte der Mädchenund Frauenbildung edited by Kleinau, E., Opitz, C. Frankfurt: Campus. 1996
- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co.. 1996
- L'Amour chez les plantes Pour la Science 1996
- Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1996; 87: 360-361
- Why Mammals are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century Natural History Feminism and Science edited by Keller, E. F., Longino, H. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996: 137–153
- The Exclusion of Women and the Structure of Knowledge The Sociology of Science edited by Nowotny, H., Taschwer, K. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Ltd.. 1996: 238–253
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MASCULINITY AND MALE CODES OF HONOR IN MODERN FRANCE - NYE,RA (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1995; 31 (3): 300-301
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- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag. 1995
- The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Science Frauen in der Aufklärung edited by Bauer, I. B., Laurenze, U. S. 1995: 155–72
- Gender and Science: Transforming Knowledge Denken heisst Grenzen Überschreiten": Beiträge aus der sozialhistorischen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung edited by Kleinau, E., Schmersahl, K., Weickmann, D. Hamburg: Bockel Verlag. 1995: 15–29
- The Private Life of Plants: Sexual Politics in Carl Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin Das Geschlecht der Natur: Feministische Beiträge zur Geschichte und Theorie der Naturwissenschaften edited by Orland, B., Scheich, E. Stuttgart: Suhrkamp Verlag. 1995: 245–69
- Gender in Natural History Cultures of Natural History: From Curiosity to Crisis edited by Jardine, N., Secord, J. A., Spary, E. C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995: 171–187
- The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1995: 671-672
- What Changes Have Feminists Brought to Science Proceedings of the 21. Kongress für Frauen in der Naturwissenschaften und Technik 1995: 287–307
- The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1995
- Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health The Women's Review of Books 1995; 12: 176-178
- The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 1994; 2: 204-205
- Why Mammals are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century Natural History Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality edited by Porter, R., Teich, M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994
- Gender in the Making of Modern Conceptions of Nature Zum Naturbegriff der Gegenwart edited by Landeshauptstadt, K. S. Stuttgart: Frommann- Holzboog. 1994: 115–136
- The Gendered Ape: Early Representations of Primates in Europe The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Gendered Culture in Early Modern Germany 1500-1700 edited by Tatlock, L. Amsterdam: Rodophi Press. 1994: 413–42
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WOMEN, LOVE, AND POWER - LITERARY AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES - BARUCH,EH (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1993; 29 (3): 251-253
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WOMEN, POLITICS, AND CHANGE - TILLY,L, GURIN,P (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1993; 29 (3): 251-253
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WHY MAMMALS ARE CALLED MAMMALS - GENDER POLITICS IN 18TH-CENTURY NATURAL-HISTORY
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
1993; 98 (2): 382-411
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- The Scientific Lady: A Social History of Woman's Scientific Interests, 1520-1918 Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 1993; 29: 251-253
- The Gendered Ape: Early Representations of Primates in Europe A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature edited by Benjamin, M. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1993
- Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Beacon Press. 1993
- The Byrth of Mankynds, Otherwyse Named The Womans Booke: Embryology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology through Four Centuries Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1993; 84: 197-198
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag. 1993
- Why Mammals are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in 18th Century Natural History Diskussionspapiere, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung 1993
- Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century, A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 1993; 29: 251-253
- The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Science Feministische Studien 1993; 11: 48-64
- Monstrous Imagination The Women's Review of Books 1993: 17
- A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science The Women's Review of Books 1992: 8-9
- Women in Science: Historical Perspectives Proceedings of the Women in Astronomy Workshop edited by Urry, M. Baltimore: Space Telescope Science Institute. 1992: 11–19
- Maria Winkelmann and the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History edited by Helly, D., Reverby, S. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1992: 56–70
- The Gendered Brain: Some Historical Perspectives So Human a Brain: Knowledge and Values in the Neurosciences edited by Harrington, A. Boston: Birkhäuser Press. 1992: 110–21
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co.. 1992
- Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime The Women's Review of Books 1992: 8-9
- The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1991; 82: 763-764
- Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science Gender and History 1991; 3: 238-239
- The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class, and Political Culture Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1991; 1: 569-570
- Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher A History of Women Philosophers: 1600-1900 edited by Waithe, M. E. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1991: 1–20
- Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries Journal of the History of Sexuality 1991; 1: 521-523
- Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood Journal of the History of Sexuality 1991; 1: 521-523
- The Private Life of Plants: Sexual Politics in Carl Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Inquiry 1780-1945 edited by Benjamin, M. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1991
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SEXUAL UNDERWORLDS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT - ROUSSEAU,GS, PORTER,R (Book Review)
ISIS
1990; 81 (306): 114-115
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- Feminine Icons: The Face of Early Modern Science La Ciencia y su Público: Perspectivas Históricas edited by Ordóñez, J., Elena, A. 1990: 71–111
- 'Tis Nature's Fault’: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1990; 81: 114-115
- The Anatomy of Difference: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Science The Politics of Difference 1990; 23: 387-406
- Maria Winkelmann and the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science Current Issues in Women's History edited by Angerman, A. New York: Routledge . 1989
- The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science Harvard University Press. 1989
- Feminine Icons: The Face of Early Modern Science Frauen im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhundert 1989: 121 - 47
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FEMININE ICONS - THE FACE OF EARLY MODERN SCIENCE
CRITICAL INQUIRY
1988; 14 (4): 661-691
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- Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 The Women's Review of Books 1988
- Reply to Hilary Rose Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1988; 13: 380-83
- Feminine Icons: The Face of Early Modern Science GeleerdeVrouwen, special issue of the Negende Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 1988: 86 - 114
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THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE - A REVIEW ESSAY
SIGNS
1987; 12 (2): 305-332
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- Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher Women and Philosophy, special issue of Documentation sur la recherche feministe 1987; 16: 60-1
- Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher A History of Women Philosophers: 1600-1900 1987
- Maria Winkelmann and the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society 1987; 78: 174-200
- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century edited by Gallagher, C., Laqueur, T. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1987
- The History and Philosophy of Women in Science: A Review Essay Sex and Scientific Inquiry edited by Harding, S. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1987: 7–34
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SKELETONS-IN-THE-CLOSET - THE 1ST ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FEMALE SKELETON IN 18TH-CENTURY ANATOMY
REPRESENTATIONS
1986: 42-82
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- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy Representations 1986; 14: 42-82
- Four Lives in Science: Women's Education in the 19th Century The Journal of Higher Education 1985; 56: 597-599
- Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy Italian translation in Memoria 1984: 11-12, 145-51