Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture

Author:   Evelleen Richards
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   1089
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   09 July 2020
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Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture


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Author:   Evelleen Richards
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   1089
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138607712


ISBN 10:   1138607711
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   09 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction; Part I: Romantic embryos, radical monsters, and racial others in evolutionary theorising; 1 “Metaphorical mystifications”: the romantic gestation of nature in British biology; 2 A question of property rights: Richard Owen’s evolutionism reassessed; 3 The “Moral Anatomy” of Robert Knox: the interplay between biological and social thought in Victorian scientific naturalism; 4 A political anatomy of monsters, hopeful and otherwise: teratogeny, transcendentalism, and evolutionary theorising; Part II: Darwinian science, good wives, the “shrieking sisterhood”, suffering animals, and radical birth control; 5 Darwin and the descent of woman; 6 Huxley and woman’s place in science: the “woman question” and the control of Victorian anthropology; 7 Redrawing the boundaries: Darwinian science and Victorian women intellectuals; 8 “The greatest of all possible evils to mankind”: Annie Besant vs. Darwin at the Knowlton trial and beyond

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"Evelleen Richards is Honorary Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney. She has published widely on the social analysis of contemporary scientific and medical controversies, with particular reference to the sociology of clinical trials and on the contextual history of evolutionary biology. Her most recent book, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection (2017), won the 2018 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, awarded biennially by the History of Science Society for the ""best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history""."

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