Cultivating women, cultivating science
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Cultivating women, cultivating science
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
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- : [pbk]
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"Flora's daughters and botany in England 1760 to 1860"--Preceding t.p
Bibliography: p. 271-291
Includes index
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: [hbk] ISBN 9780801851414
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Exploring the contributions of women to the field of botany both before and during the early Victorian period, this volume shows how early ideas of botany as a leisure pursuit gave women opportunities to publish their views. However, the professionalization of botany by the 1830s saw a division between "polite" botany, for women; and botanical science, for men. Despite this division, women continued to participate in botanical activities, both at home and abroad, as fern collectors, teachers, marine botanists, and colonial wives commissioned to send home specimens for imperial projects.
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: [pbk] ISBN 9780801861758
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An exploration of the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. Ann B. Shteir shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity for self-improvement and a "feminine" pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their findings and views in both scientific and amateur periodicals. By the 1830s, however, botany came to be regarded as a professional activity for specialists and experts - and women's contributions to the field of botany as authors and teachers were viewed as problematic. Shteir focuses on John Lindley, whose determination to form distinctions between polite botany - what he called "amusement for the ladies" - and botanical science - "an occupation for the serious thoughts of man" - illustrates how the contributions of women were minimized in the social history of science. Despite the efforts of Lindley and others, women continued to participate avidly in botanical activities at home and abroad, and proceeded to write for other women, children and general readers.
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