From Eve to Evolution - Darwin, Science, and Women''s Rights in Gilded Age America

Provides the study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement.

About the author

Kimberly A. Hamlin is assistant professor of American studies and history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She lives in Cincinnati.

Summary

Provides the study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly A. Hamlin, Hamlin Kimberly A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226134611
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13461-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls