Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England by Anna K. Sagal
English | August 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0813946964 | 294 pages | True EPUB | 4.81 MB
English | August 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0813946964 | 294 pages | True EPUB | 4.81 MB
To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how women's active participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social and cultural conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors. By taking advantage of the intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists studied here laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly.
