Figuring It Out
Science, Gender, and Visual Culture
Ann Shteir, ed.; Bernard Lightman, ed.

Dartmouth College Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments • Contributors • Introduction - . and • Frontispieces
• Iconographies of Flora: The Goddess of Flowers in the Cultural History of Botany - . • A Passion that Transforms: Picturing the Early Natural History Collector -
• Figuring Nature/Figuring the (Fe)male: The Frontispiece to Humboldt’s Ideas Towards a Geography of Plants - • The Nineteenth Century: Technologies and Gender Politics
• Picturing Sexual Selection: Gender and the Evolution of Ornithological Illustration in Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man -
• Nature by Design: Masculinity and Animal Display in Nineteenth-Century America - • Gender and Genre in Victorian Scientific Photography - • Scrapbook Science: Composite Caricatures in Late Georgian England - • Those Who Drew and Those Who Wrote: Women and Victorian Popular Science Illustration - . • Depicting Nature, Defining Roles: The Gender Politics of Victorian Illustration - • Gendered Collaborations: Marrying Art and Science - - • The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Changes or Continuities? • Looking for Jean Dow: Narratives of Women and Missionary Medicine in Modern China - . • Images of Expertise: Women, Science, and the Politics of Representation -
• Men in White, Women in Aprons: Utopian Iconographies of TV Doctors - • The Fetal Voyager: Women in Modern Medical Visual Discourse - • Visible/Human/Project: Visibility and Invisibility at the Next Anatomical Frontier -
• Index




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