Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Londa Schiebinger
Born: May 13, 1952 (age 74)
Bio: Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984.
Known for:
- Nature's Body (1993)
- The Mind Has No Sex? (1989)
- Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999)
- Plants and Empire (2004)







