From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America /

"From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamlin, Kimberly A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
1800-1899
Feminism and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Evolution (Biology)
Biological Evolution
Feminism > history
Women's Rights > history
Féminisme et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Évolution (Biologie)
evolution.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences.
Feminism and science.
Women's rights.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Evolution and the natural order
  • Eve's curse
  • "The science of feminine humanity"
  • Working women and animal mothers
  • "Female choice" and the reproductive autonomy of women
  • Conclusion.

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