Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World / Edition 2

Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World / Edition 2

by Barbara T. Gates
ISBN-10:
0226284433
ISBN-13:
9780226284439
Pub. Date:
02/15/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226284433
ISBN-13:
9780226284439
Pub. Date:
02/15/1999
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World / Edition 2

Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World / Edition 2

by Barbara T. Gates

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Overview

In Kindred Nature, Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature. Recovering their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition, Gates discusses not just well-known women like Beatrix Potter but also others—scientists, writers, gardeners, and illustrators—who are little known today.

Some of these women discovered previously unknown species, others wrote and illustrated natural histories or animal stories, and still others educated women, the working classes, and children about recent scientific advances. A number of women also played pivotal roles in the defense of animal rights by protesting overhunting, vivisection, and habitat destruction, even as they demanded their own rights to vote, work, and enter universities.

Kindred Nature shows the enormous impact Victorian and Edwardian women had on the natural sciences and the environmental movement, and on our own attitudes toward nature and human nature.




Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226284439
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 02/15/1999
Edition description: 1
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Barbara T. Gates is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories and Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Her edited works include Critical Essays on Charlotte Brontë, the Journal of Emily Shore, and, with Ann B. Shteir, Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. In the year 2000, she was awarded the Founders’ Distinguished Senior Scholar Award by the American Association of University Women.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introductory
Pt. 1: Women on the Edge of Science
1: Who Can Speak in Nature's Name?
2: Retelling the Story of Science: The Wonders of Nature
3: Cataloging the Natural World: Case Studies of Women Naturalists
Pt. 2: Nature's Crusaders
4: Nurturing Nature
5: "Tongues of Fire": Womanist Visions of Nature
Pt. 3: Storied Nature
6: Aestheticizing Nature
7: Hunting and Gathering Writing
8: Storied Animals
9: Kindred Natures: The Earthlings
Afterward: An Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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