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Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture / edited by Ann B. Shteir and Bernard Lightman.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
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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