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Assignment 2

I think Schiebinger’s response to why the anatomy of white women and men became critical for the medical community in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries because it was to determine what the position of women’s role in society would be by comparing the female skeleton to the male skeleton as well as the child skeleton and figuring out how to draw the accurate depiction of a skeleton diagram for female since they already had one for male. These skeleton parts included the skull where female’s had a smaller skull compared to the male (I think this made the anatomist at that time who were mostly male think that males were smarter than females because males had a bigger skull and usually when you are referring to something bigger it could mean how smart you are which we know today isn’t always the case as whales have bigger brain than human beings, but there aren’t really that intelligent as human in terms of innovating and creating things), the pelvis where the female’s had a larger pelvis compared to the male (I think this made the anatomist think that females were meant to be a mother by giving birth to a child and taking care of it), and other bones and organs.

I think the depiction of skeleton drawing/diagram that the anatomist were trying to draw eventually represented what they were suppose to represent, but there was a lot of disagreement on whether the drawing was correct and whether or not the bone depiction was correct, where males were represented as masculine (having masculine features such as muscles, but I guess bones can have that as well) and females were represented as feminine. These representation were drawn by mostly male anatomist and whether they are correct or not led to another argument of what the correct version should be because not everyone would agree with one another and this is how science was able to become correct, without the gender issues.