| Description |
xiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Science and literature |
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Science and literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Charting the tradition / Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir -- The invisible woman / Stephen Jay Gould -- Fictionality, demonstration, and a forum for popular science: Jane Marcet's Conversations on chemistry / Greg Myers -- Constructing Victorian heavens: Agnes Clerke and the "new astronomy" / Bernard Lightman -- Science in Canada's backwoods: Catharine Parr Traill / Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley -- The "very poetry of frogs": Louisa Anne Meredith in Australia / Judith Johnston -- "Through books to nature": Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement / Pamela M. Henson -- Revising the descent of woman: Eliza Burt Gamble / Rosemary Jann -- Revisioning Darwin with sympathy: Arabella Buckley / Barbara T. Gates -- Conflicting scientific feminisms: Charlotte Haldane and Naomi Mitchison / Susan Squier -- Rachel Carson and her legacy / Rebecca Raglon -- The Spectacle of science and self: Mary Kingsley / Julie English Early -- "Ape ladies" and cultural politics: Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas / James Krasner -- Interview with Diane Ackerman, 18 July 1994 / Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir. |
| Subject |
Women in science.
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Science news.
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| Added Author |
Gates, Barbara T., 1936-
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Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
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| ISBN |
0299154807 cloth alkaline paper |
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029915484X paperback |
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