Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences

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Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences is written by Susanne Lettow and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 143844950X (ISBN 10) and 9781438449500 (ISBN 13).

Focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race and gender. Neither the life sciences nor philosophy had fixed disciplinary boundaries at this point in history. Kant, Hegel, and Schelling weighed in on these questions alongside scientists such as Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Karl Ernst von Baer. The essays in this volume chart the development of modern gender polarizations and a naturalized, scientific understanding of gender and race that absorbed and legitimized cultural assumptions about difference and hierarchy.