Figuring it out : science, gender, and visual culture
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R013287 Ned. Fotomuseum $T SHTEIR.A 2006
TitleFiguring it out : science, gender, and visual culture
Author
Edition[editie] 1st ed.
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationHanover, N.H
Year of publication2006
2006
Paginationxxx, 386 p. :
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions27 x 18 cm.
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
Series titleInterfaces, studies in visual culture
ISBN1584656026978158465602915846560349781584656036
Bibliographic Notespb; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abstract
Contents:
1. Iconographies of flora : the goddess of flowers in the cultural history of botany / Ann B. Shteir --
2. A passion that transforms : picturing the early natural history collector / Alan Bewell --
3. Figuring nature/ figuring the (fe)male : the frontispiece to Humboldt's ideas towards a Geography of plants / Joan Steigerwald --
4. Picturing sexual selection : gender and the evolution of ornithological illustration in Charles Darwin's Descent of man / Jonathan Smith --
5. Nature by design : masculinity and animal display in nineteenth-century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt --
6. Gender and genre in victorian scientific photography / Jennifer Tucker --
7. Scrapbook science : composite caricatures in late Georgian England / James Secord --
8. Those who drew and those who wrote : women and Victorian popular science illustration / Barbara T. Gates --
9. Depicting nature, defining roles : the gender politics of Victorian illustration / Bernard Lightman --
10. Gendered collaborations : marrying art and science / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield --
11. Looking for Jean Dow : narratives of women and missionary medicine in modern China / Margo S. Gewurtz --
12. Images of expertise : women, science, and the politics of representation / Lorraine Code --
13. Men in white, women in aprons : utopian iconographies of TV doctors / Janine Marchessault --
14. The fetal voyager : women in modern medical visual discourse / Annette Burfoot --
15. Visible/ human project : visibility and invisibility at the limits of the next anatomical frontier / Naomi Adelson -
Visual communication in science
Gender identity in science
1. Iconographies of flora : the goddess of flowers in the cultural history of botany / Ann B. Shteir --
2. A passion that transforms : picturing the early natural history collector / Alan Bewell --
3. Figuring nature/ figuring the (fe)male : the frontispiece to Humboldt's ideas towards a Geography of plants / Joan Steigerwald --
4. Picturing sexual selection : gender and the evolution of ornithological illustration in Charles Darwin's Descent of man / Jonathan Smith --
5. Nature by design : masculinity and animal display in nineteenth-century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt --
6. Gender and genre in victorian scientific photography / Jennifer Tucker --
7. Scrapbook science : composite caricatures in late Georgian England / James Secord --
8. Those who drew and those who wrote : women and Victorian popular science illustration / Barbara T. Gates --
9. Depicting nature, defining roles : the gender politics of Victorian illustration / Bernard Lightman --
10. Gendered collaborations : marrying art and science / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield --
11. Looking for Jean Dow : narratives of women and missionary medicine in modern China / Margo S. Gewurtz --
12. Images of expertise : women, science, and the politics of representation / Lorraine Code --
13. Men in white, women in aprons : utopian iconographies of TV doctors / Janine Marchessault --
14. The fetal voyager : women in modern medical visual discourse / Annette Burfoot --
15. Visible/ human project : visibility and invisibility at the limits of the next anatomical frontier / Naomi Adelson -
Visual communication in science
Gender identity in science
| Copy number | R013287 |
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| Shelf mark | $T SHTEIR.A 2006 |