Women and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775-1925: Volume IV: Science, Medicine, and Natural History: 4

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.