Claudia Opitz-Belakhal

Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Basel, with a focus on the history of women and gender and French history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Her most recent publication is Böse Weiber. Wissen und Geschlecht in der Dämonologie der Frühen Neuzeit (2017).

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Cover for: On gender, knowledge and scientific careers: An interview with Londa Schiebinger

Interviewed in feminist history journal L’Homme, influential historian of science and gender Londa Schiebinger talks about biological determinism in modern science and education, the impact of diversity on the contemporary natural and human sciences, and agnotology – the study of culturally-induced ignorance.

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