In this Book
- Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, Banu Subramaniam explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.
Subramaniam reveals the histories of eugenics and genetics and their impact on the metaphorical understandings of difference and diversity that permeate common understandings of differences among people exist in contexts that seem distant from the so-called objective hard sciences. Journeying into interdisciplinary areas that range from the social history of plants to speculative fiction, Subramaniam uncovers key relationships between the life sciences, women's studies, evolutionary and invasive biology, and the history of ecology, and how ideas of diversity and difference emerged and persist in each field.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part I. Genealogies of Variation: The Case of Morning Glory Flowers
- Part II. Geographies of Variation: The Case of Invasion Biology
- 4. Alien Nation: A Recent Biography
- pp. 95-124
- Part III. Biographies of Variation: The Case of Women in the Sciences
- References
- pp. 235-270
- Index, About the Author, Production Notes
- pp. 271-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252096594
Related ISBN(s)
9780252038655, 9780252080241
MARC Record
OCLC
893284687
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2014-10-17
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014