Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2006. |
| Description: | xxx, 386 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interfaces, studies in visual culture |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6203693 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction - . and Frontispieces
- Iconographies of Flora: The Goddess of Flowers in the Cultural History of Botany
- 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
- 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
