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• catalog abstract "Maria Elizabeth Jacson's popular textbooks introduced a generation of young men and women to the science of botany. Agnes Ibbetson published more than fifty articles about plant physiology in science journals of the nineteenth century. The writings of Elizabeth Kent were admired and praised by Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Yet the names of these three women have almost completely disappeared from histories of botany and science culture. In Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science, Ann B. Shteir explores the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. She shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity and "feminine" pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their views and findings in both scientific and amateur periodicals. Women were encouraged to study botany as a fashionable area of natural history linked to self-improvement. Some established themselves as important authors and teachers in the field. 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 were viewed as problematic. Shteir focuses on John Lindley, the anti-Linnaean and first professor of botany at the University of London, one of the early modernizers and professionalizers of the science. Lindley's 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. At a time of great current interest in the role of women in science, this rich and absorbing book provides a new perspective on gender issues in the history of science. Drawing on archival materials, Shteir provides detailed biographical sketches that illustrate how important botany was in the lives of daughters, mothers, and wives from the Enlightenment to the Victorian Era. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science rediscovers the resourceful women who used their pens for their own social, economic, and intellectual purposes.".
• catalog contributor b8821302.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "At a time of great current interest in the role of women in science, this rich and absorbing book provides a new perspective on gender issues in the history of science. Drawing on archival materials, Shteir provides detailed biographical sketches that illustrate how important botany was in the lives of daughters, mothers, and wives from the Enlightenment to the Victorian Era. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science rediscovers the resourceful women who used their pens for their own social, economic, and intellectual purposes.".
• catalog description "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 were viewed as problematic. Shteir focuses on John Lindley, the anti-Linnaean and first professor of botany at the University of London, one of the early modernizers and professionalizers of the science. Lindley's 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.".
• catalog description "In Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science, Ann B. Shteir explores the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. She shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity and "feminine" pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their views and findings in both scientific and amateur periodicals. Women were encouraged to study botany as a fashionable area of natural history linked to self-improvement. Some established themselves as important authors and teachers in the field.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-291) and index.".
• catalog description "Maria Elizabeth Jacson's popular textbooks introduced a generation of young men and women to the science of botany. Agnes Ibbetson published more than fifty articles about plant physiology in science journals of the nineteenth century. The writings of Elizabeth Kent were admired and praised by Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Yet the names of these three women have almost completely disappeared from histories of botany and science culture.".
• catalog description "Spreading Botanical Knowledge throughout the Land,1760-1830 -- Women in the Polite Culture of Botany -- Flora's Daughters as Writers during the Linnaean Years -- Botanical Dialogues: The Cultural Politics of the Familiar Format -- Three "Careers" in Botanical Writing -- Defeminizing the Budding Science of Botany, 1830-1860 -- Women and Botany in the Victorian Breakfast Room -- Flora's Daughters in Print Culture, 1830-1860 -- Epilogue Feministica.".
• catalog extent "xi, 301 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Cultivating women, cultivating science.".
• catalog identifier "0801851416 (hc : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Cultivating women, cultivating science.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Cultivating women, cultivating science.".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog subject "581/.082 20".
• catalog subject "Botany England History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Botany England History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "QK21.G7 S57 1996".
• catalog subject "Women in botany England Biography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Spreading Botanical Knowledge throughout the Land,1760-1830 -- Women in the Polite Culture of Botany -- Flora's Daughters as Writers during the Linnaean Years -- Botanical Dialogues: The Cultural Politics of the Familiar Format -- Three "Careers" in Botanical Writing -- Defeminizing the Budding Science of Botany, 1830-1860 -- Women and Botany in the Victorian Breakfast Room -- Flora's Daughters in Print Culture, 1830-1860 -- Epilogue Feministica.".
• catalog title "Cultivating women, cultivating science : Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860 / Ann B. Shteir.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".