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 -
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Frontispieces
• Iconographies of Flora: The Goddess of Flowers in the Cultural History of Botany -
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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 -
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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