Evelleen Richards

Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429883446
• Artikelnr.: 59499494

Autorenporträt

Evelleen Richards is Honorary Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney. She has published widely on the social analysis of contemporary scientific and medical controversies, with particular reference to the sociology of clinical trials and on the contextual history of evolutionary biology. Her most recent book, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection (2017), won the 2018 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, awarded biennially by the History of Science Society for the "best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I: Romantic embryos, radical monsters, and racial others
in evolutionary theorising; 1 "Metaphorical mystifications": the romantic
gestation of nature in British biology; 2 A question of property rights:
Richard Owen's evolutionism reassessed; 3 The "Moral Anatomy" of Robert
Knox: the interplay between biological and social thought in Victorian
scientific naturalism; 4 A political anatomy of monsters, hopeful and
otherwise: teratogeny, transcendentalism, and evolutionary theorising;
Part II: Darwinian science, good wives, the "shrieking sisterhood",
suffering animals, and radical birth control; 5 Darwin and the descent of
woman; 6 Huxley and woman's place in science: the "woman question" and the
control of Victorian anthropology; 7 Redrawing the boundaries: Darwinian
science and Victorian women intellectuals; 8 "The greatest of all possible
evils to mankind": Annie Besant vs. Darwin at the Knowlton trial and beyond