Natural eloquence : women reinscribe science / edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir.

Other author Gates, Barbara T., 1936-
Other author Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesScience and literature
Science and literature. ^A254282
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96043668
ISBN0299154807 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN029915484X (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks Q130 .S39 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold