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Female Bodies and Brittle Bones

an ever-deeper level. It seems the privileged way to obtain knowledge on life processes, for instance on ageing of the body. However, science and technology studies have criticized the concept of ’discovering’ the body (and nature) (Latour, 1987). The claim is made that biomedical knowledge cannot directly ’mirror’ natural reality. On the contrary, the production of scientific knowledge is a human enterprise and in accordance with operative norms and values -in short, with social-cultural conditions. Consequently, scientific knowledge has to be considered as historical and local. Analysing the body poses a particular challenge to feminists. As daughters of the heritage which Simone de Beauvoir spelled out in The Second