Talk by Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University. Comment: Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley. Professor Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is author of many books, among them the prize-winning "Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science" (Beacon Press, 1993; reissued in 2004 by Rutgers University Press) and "Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World" (Harvard University Press, 2004). She has served as a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin and the Jantine Tammes Distinguished Chair in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Most recently, Schiebinger won the 2005 Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association and the 2005 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society for her book, "Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World." This presentation is part of the new series "Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society," which convenes at noon each Friday of spring quarter.