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Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada - Hardcover

 
9780228011125: Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0228011124 ISBN 13: 9780228011125
Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field. Flora’s Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia – most of whom were scarcely visible in the historical record – who were active in “plant work” as collectors, writers, artists, craft workers, teachers, and organizers. Understood as an appropriate pastime for genteel ladies, botany offered women pathways to scientific education, financial autonomy, and self-expression. The call for more diverse voices in the present must look to the past as well. Bringing botany to historians and historians to botany, Flora’s Fieldworkers gathers compelling material about women in colonial and imperial Canada and Australia to take a new look at how we came to know what we know about plants.

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Ann Shteir is professor emerita and senior scholar in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University.

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Verlag
McGill-Queen's University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0228011124
ISBN 13 
9780228011125
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
445
Herausgeber
Shteir Ann
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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