Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
Banu Subramaniam
Abstract
A stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, this book explores how the author's 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. The book 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-c ... More
Keywords: feminist studies, evolutionary biology, flower color, color variation, eugenics, genetics, diversity, difference, ecology, life sciences
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252038655 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252038655.001.0001 |
