Londa Schiebinger is a historian of science specialising in research on the relationship between gender and science. She is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.
She graduated from University of Nebraska with a B.A. in English in 1974, from Harvard University with a M.A. in History in 1977, and with a Ph.D. in History in 1984.At Pennsylvania State University, she co-directed with Robert N. Proctor, the Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program for nine years.
She works on gendered innovations in science, medicine, and engineering, where she and her team explore how gender analysis, when turned to science and technology, can spark creativity by opening new questions and fields for future research.She lectured at the University of Oldenburg, and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
She is married to Robert N. Proctor; they have two children.
Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know, Londa L. Schiebinger, Andrea Davies Henderson, Shannon K. Gilmartin, Stanford University, 2008, ISBN 9780981774602
Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, Edited by Londa Schiebinger. Stanford University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780804758147
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, Edited by Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger. Stanford University Press 2008, ISBN 9780804756525
Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Harvard University Press. 2004, ISBN 9780674014879
Foreign Translation: Japanese (Kosakusha Publishing Co., in progress). Winner of the Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association, 2005, and the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2005. ISBN 0674014871
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics, edited by Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2004.
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science Beacon Press, 1993, ISBN 9780807089002; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004 ISBN 9780813535319
Foreign Translations: Japanese (Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co., 1996); German (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1995); and Hungarian (in preparation). Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995.
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, edited by Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 9780226120249
Oxford Companion to the Body, edited by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett; Section editors Alan Cuthbert, Roy Porter, Tom Sears, Londa Schiebinger, and Tilli Tansey (Oxford University Press) 2001.
Feminism and the Body, edited by Londa Schiebinger, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198731917
Has Feminism Changed Science?, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2001, ISBN 9780674005440
Foreign Translations: Japanese (Kosakusha Publishing Co., 2002); German (München: Beck Verlag, 2000); Portuguese (Editora da Universidade do Sagrado Coração, 2001); Korean (Dulnyouk Publishing Co., 2002). ISBN 0674005449
The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780674576230; Harvard University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780674576254
Foreign Translations: Japanese (Tokyo: Kosakusha Publishing Co., 1992); German (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1993); Chinese (Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing); Portuguese (Lisbon: Pandora Ediçioes, 2001); and Greek (Athens: Katoptro, 2003).
"Theories of Gender and Race", Feminist theory and the body: a reader, Editors Janet Price, Margrit Shildrick, Taylor & Francis, 1999, ISBN 9780415925662
Criticism
"Changing Assumptions", American Scientist, September-October 2008