Article ID: CBB000340629

A Woman Down to Her Bones: The Anatomy of Sexual Difference in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (2003)

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Description Reexamines Thomas Laqueur's and Londa Schiebinger's claim that anatomical difference between the sexes was “invented” in the eighteenth century.


Includes Series Articles

Article Laqueur, Thomas W. (2003) Sex in the Flesh. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 300). unapi

Article Schiebinger, Londa (2003) Skelettestreit. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 307). unapi

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Article Cadden, Joan; Flemming, Rebecca; Green, Monica H.; King, Helen (2004) Letter to the Editor. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 97). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Giuseppe Papagno
Claudia Pancino
De Tommaso, Emilio Maria
Anna Brusamolin Mantovani
Jutta Gisela Sperling
Whiteley, Rebecca
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Medical History
I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Publishers
Olschki
University of Toronto Press
Pickering & Chatto
Bononia University Press
Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate
Concepts
Human anatomy
Women
Medicine
Sex differences
Science and art
Science and literature
People
Marinella, Lucrezia
Quevedo, Francisco
Leonardo da Vinci
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
18th century
Renaissance
15th century
Places
Europe
Spain
England
Italy
Great Britain
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