Madelyn’s Reviews > The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century > Status Update

“In the course of the late 18th and 19th centuries, categories of sex and race increasingly game to define standards of social worth. (...) These standards came to reflect the structure of the scientific community. Those who possessed the tools of science took themselves as the standard of excellence. In the absence of women, the largely male scientific community studied women using male anatomy as the norm"