Overview

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection considers the role women writers and artists in the long-nineteenth century that have played in the areas of natural history, and examines such topics as nineteenth-century female botanists; garden bowers and the entrapped woman; human-animal interactions (HAI); anthropocene feminism; evolutionary biology; geobiology; the female body as a biologic commodity; feminist panarchy; new materialisms and female responses to disease and matter. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History and Environmental History.

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Author:   Jillmarie Murphy (Union College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
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9781032149349

ISBN 10:   1032149345
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   30 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Table of Contents

Volume IV: Science, Medicine, and Natural History General Introduction Volume IV Introduction Part 1. Astronomy 1. Anonymous, ‘Astronomy’, The Girls’ Manual: Comprising a Summary View of Female Studies, Accomplishments, and Principles of Conduct (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852), pp. 172-178. 2. Mary Cornwallis Herschel [Mrs. John Herschel], ‘Introduction’, and ‘Life of the Brother and Sister in Bath’, in Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: John Murray, 1876), pp. v-x, 29-77 3. Agnes M. Clerke, ‘Section 1.—History’, in Astronomy (New York: D. Appleton and Company 1898), pp. 3-21. Part 2. Chemistry 4. Margaret Coxe, ‘Letter XVII. Natural Science--Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry’, The Young Lady’s Companion, and Token of Affection, in a Series of Letters (Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1846), pp. 145-150. 5. ‘On Female Education’, The Ladies’ Companion at Home and Abroad, 1, (May 5, 1850), pp. 348-349. 6. A. T. Vanderbilt, ‘Medical Work’, What to Do with Our Girls; or, Employments for Women (London: Houlston and Sons, 1884), pp. 90-92. 7. Frances M. Abbot, ‘A Generation of College Women’, in The Forum, Volume XX (New York: The Forum Publishing company, 1895), p. 381. 8. Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards, ‘Introduction’, in First Lessons in Minerals (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1882), pp. 3-5 9. Albert Williams, Mineral Resources of the United States, Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), p. 417. 10. Jane Marcet, ‘Preface’, Conversations on Chemistry in Which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments, 16th edition (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), pp. v-x. 11. Monroe Alphus Majors, M.D. ‘Mrs. J. Silone Yates’, Noted Negro Women, Their Triumphs and Activities (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1893) pp. 44-50. Part 3. Biology: Botany and Natural History 12. Priscilla Wakefield, ‘Preface’, ‘Letter I’, ‘Letter VI’, and ‘Letter VIII’, in Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters (Dublin: Thomas Burnside, 1796), pp. iii-vi, 1-3, 28-37, 43-46 13. Priscilla Wakefield, ‘Dialogue XIII. On the Seeds of Plants’, in Domestic Recreation; or Dialogues Illustrative of Natural and Scientific Subjects (London: Darton and Harvey, 1806), pp. 186-199. 14. Sarah Hoare, ‘The Pleasures of Botanical Pursuits. A Poem’, in Priscilla Wakefield, Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, 9th ed. (London: Harvey and Darton, J. Harris and Son, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co., Sherwood and Jones, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and Simpkin and Marshall, 1823), pp. 118-187. 15. Frances Arabella Rowden, ‘Lesson I’, ‘Hippuris. Mare’s Tail., Monandria Monogynia’, ‘Canna. Indian Flowering Reed, Monandria Monogynia’ and ‘Jasminum. Jasmine, Diandria Monogynia’, in A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany (London: T. Bensely, 1801), pp. 1-3, 8 16. Barbara O’Sullivan Addicks, Essay on Education, in Which the Subject is Treated as a Natural Science: In a Series of Short Familiar Lectures (Philadelphia: Martin and Bodin, 1831), pp. 11-12. 17. ‘Botany’, and ‘The Pleasures of Botany’, in The Girls’ Manual, Comprising a Summary View of Female Studies, Accomplishments, and Principles of Conduct (D. Appleton and Company, 1852), pp. 178-192. 18. Susan Fenimore Cooper, ‘Spring’, in Rural Hours, 4th ed. (New York: George P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 16-17, 22, 31, 34-38, 47-49. 19. Celia Thaxter, Among the Isles of Shoals (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873), pp. 24-28. 20. Frances M. Abbott, ‘Prologue’, Birds and Flowers about Concord, New Hampshire (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1906), pp. vii-xii. 21. Gwendolen Foulke Andrews, The Living Substance as such, and as Organism, supplement to the Journal of Morphology, Volume XII, 2 (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1897), pp. 141-144. Part 4. The Geosciences 22. Margaret Coxe, ‘Letter XIX. Botany, Mineralogy, Geology’, The Young Lady’s Companion, and Token of Affection, in a Series of Letters (Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1846), pp. 160-169. 23. Rosina Maria Zornlin, ‘Preface’, and ‘Chapter I: The Earth’s Crust’, in Recreations in Geology, 3rd ed. (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853), pp. v-vii, 65-80. 24. Rosina Maria Zornlin, ‘Geology’, Physical Geography for Families and Schools (Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1856), pp. 33-44. Part 5. Geography 25. Margaret Coxe, ‘Letter XIII. Geography’, The Young Lady’s Companion, and Token of Affection, in a Series of Letters (Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting), pp. 111-115. 26. Rosina Maria Zornlin, ‘The Objects of Physical Geography’, Physical Geography for Families and Schools (Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1856), pp. 1-2. 27. Joan Berenice Reynolds, ‘Introduction’ and ‘The Aim of the Teaching of Geography, and the Reasons for the Inclusion of the Subject in the Curriculum of Swiss Schools’, in The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and North Italy (Cambridge: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1899), pp. 1-10, 11-15 Index

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Jillmarie Murphy is William D. Williams Professor of Literature, Neuroscience, and Women's & Gender Studies, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Union College, New York.

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