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in parietal art, symbolism for, 22– 24, 22f– 24f
in Upper Paleolithic, Europe, 11– 13, 12t,
27nn1, 3
barriers to understanding sex in, 13– 16
cave paintings, numeracy, and literacy in,
16– 18, 17f, 27– 28n17
in Venus figurines
as female sexuality icons, 12t, 18– 19,
18 f, 20f
textile discovery and clothing of,
20– 22, 21f
vulva and plant in, 26, 26f
sex, plant, bias against, 3– 4
sex, plant, Empedocles to Theophrastus,
210– 228
Aristotle in ( see also Aristotle)
on “generation” in plants, 216– 218, 227n17
on hybridization, 218– 219
on insects, 215, 227n13
on sex, gender, and plants, 214– 216
Bible on, Hebrew, 210, 219– 220
Empedocles’ On Nature in, 201– 202,
212– 213, 217
Hippocrates and “four humors” in, 213– 214,
213 f, 227n11
natural laws and, 210
pre- Socratic philosophers and, 211– 212
Theophrastus on
artificial pollination in date palms in,
223– 225
“degeneration” in fruit trees in, 225– 226
fruit shedding in figs in, 223
Historia Plantarum and De Causis
Plantarum of, 220– 223
sex ranking
by Aristotle, 5– 6
by Greeks, Hippocratic School, 6
sex- typing, by color, 5
sexualists, vs. asexualists, 493– 494
sexual organs. See also specific types
depictions of
Magdalenian, 25– 26
Upper Paleolithic Europe, 22– 23, 22f– 24f
female
Aristotle on, 5– 6
Galen on, 6, 7, 7f
Laqueur on, 6
sexual utopias, 401n4Sha’ar Hagolan figurines, 44– 47, 45f– 46f
Shabti, 135n72
Shabti box, 115, 116f
Shaft Graves of Mycenae, 138, 167, 180n59
rulers of, 167– 168
Shakespeare
human– plant analogy of, 382
Sonnet 130, 320n43
Sheba, 271
Sherratt, Andrew, 81
Shteir, Ann, 369– 370
Shukaletuda, Inanna and, 109– 111, 134n60
Shukba cave, sedentism and, 29, 30f
Siegesbeck, Johann George
Linnaeus battle of, 402n22
on sexual system and sexual theory, 387– 391,
402n22, 30, 403nn28
Silphium, 13
Silvestris, Bernard, 290, 291, 318n12
Cosmographia, 291
Singer, Charles, 256– 260, 257f, 258f– 260f
Smellie, William, 410– 411
The Philosophy of Nature, 411
snails, hermaphroditic, 332, 336
Song of Songs, 127– 130
apple in, 298
hortus conclusis and women as walled
gardens, 280– 281
sori (sorus), 469f
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe), 440
Sothis, 187
Spallanzini, Lazzaro, 410
spathe, 92, 93f
species, Linnaeus on, 373
spermatic granules, 472
spermatic tubules, 472
spermatophytes, 465
sperm cells, 470f
motile, 480
“spiral filaments” as, 468, 470f
spermists, 339– 340
spikelet disarticulation in wheat, wild vs.
domesticated, 38– 40, 38f– 39f, 40n23
spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi), 129, 137n91
Spinacia, Camerarius’ experiments with, 341
Spinoza, Barch, 439
spiral filaments, 468, 470f
spiral vessels, 447, 460n54