Society
What if you could predict someone's behavioral tendencies based solely on their facial structure? The roots of physiognomy, the science of judging one's personality based on facial characteristics, dates back to ancient China and Greece. Famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Socrates, were known to have taught this theory to their disciples and have published literary works detailing the significance of each part of the face.
Dr. Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project. Professor Schiebinger received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984 and is a leading international authority on gender and science. Over the past thirty years, her work has been devoted to teasing apart three analytically distinct but interlocking pieces of the gender and science puzzle: the history of women's participation in science; gender in the structure of scientific institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge.
