1. Politics in the Scientific Classification of Human Bodies
A Presentation by:
Katheryn Wright

2. Aims
Understand how Foucault’s notion of “political anatomy” serves as a framework for Schiebinger’s analysis
Discuss specific ways humankind was to be divided
Articulate the difference between environmentalism and biological determinism, making sure to understand basic assumptions about nature

3. Aims (2)
Realize the conflict between scientific sexism and scientific racism, both of which serve as reaction to the Revolution’s claim for ‘natural’ rights
Articulate the difference between “the doctrine of the great chain of being” and “the doctrine of sexual complementarity”
Understand the “body politic,” or how the body is infused with power
Discuss how the practitioners of science affect science’s outcome

4. “Political Anatomy”
What does this mean?

5. Works Cited
Foucault, Michel. “Docile Bodies.” In Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984)
Hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics. Eds. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 1995)
Kubrick, Stanley, dir. Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri (Warner Bros., 1971).
Picart, Caroline. The Darwinian Shift: Kuhn vs. Laudan (Acton Massachusetts: Copley, 1997).
Schiebinger, Londa. Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993)