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Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture / edited by Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interfaces, studies in visual culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual communication in science.
- Gender identity in science.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England, [2006]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781584656029
- 1584656026
- 9781584656036
- 1584656034
- OCLC:
- 70673140
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