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Title Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture / edited by Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman.

Publication Info. Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England, [2006]
©2006

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxx, 386 pages) : illustrations.
Series Interfaces, studies in visual culture
Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Iconographies of flora : the goddess of flowers in the cultural history of botany / Ann B. Shteir -- A passion that transforms : picturing the early natural history collector / Alan Bewell -- Figuring nature/ figuring the (fe)male : the frontispiece to Humboldt's ideas towards a Geography of plants / Joan Steigerwald -- Picturing sexual selection : gender and the evolution of ornithological illustration in Charles Darwin's Descent of man / Jonathan Smith -- Nature by design : masculinity and animal display in nineteenth-century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- Gender and genre in victorian scientific photography / Jennifer Tucker -- Scrapbook science : composite caricatures in late Georgian England / James Secord -- Those who drew and those who wrote : women and Victorian popular science illustration / Barbara T. Gates -- Depicting nature, defining roles : the gender politics of Victorian illustration / Bernard Lightman -- Gendered collaborations : marrying art and science / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield -- Looking for Jean Dow : narratives of women and missionary medicine in modern China / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Images of expertise : women, science, and the politics of representation / Lorraine Code -- Men in white, women in aprons : utopian iconographies of TV doctors / Janine Marchessault -- The fetal voyager : women in modern medical visual discourse / Annette Burfoot -- Visible/ human project : visibility and invisibility at the limits of the next anatomical frontier / Naomi Adelson.
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Note Print version record.
Summary "A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science."--Back cover.
Local Note EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete
Subject Visual communication in science.
Gender identity in science.
Gender identity in science. (OCoLC)fst01740276
Visual communication in science. (OCoLC)fst01737997
Geschlechterforschung.
Frauenforschung.
Bildliche Darstellung.
Frau Motiv.
Geschlechterrolle.
Kunst.
Kunstwissenschaft.
Naturwissenschaften.
Visuelle Kommunikation.
Wissenschaft.
Indexed Term Aufsatzsammlung
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Figuring it out. 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England, ©2006 (DLC) 2006022093 (OCoLC)70673140
ISBN 1584656026 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781584656029 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1584656034 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781584656036 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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