The Resource From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America, Kimberly A. Hamlin
From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America, Kimberly A. Hamlin
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- Summary
- This work provides a study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Here the author reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve's sin forever fixed women's subordinate status, embraced Darwinian evolution, especially sexual selection theory as explained in The Descent of Man, as an alternative to the creation story in Genesis. The author chronicles the lives and writings of the women who combined their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with their commitment to women's rights, including Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Eliza Burt Gamble, Helen Hamilton Gardener, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These Darwinian feminists believed evolutionary science proved that women were not inferior to men, that it was natural for mothers to work outside the home, and that women should control reproduction. The practical applications of this evolutionary feminism came to fruition, it si shown, in the early thinking and writing of the American birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger. In contrast to the extensive scholarship that has been dedicated to analyzing what Darwin and other males evolutionists had to say about women, this work offers information on what women themselves had to say about evolution. -- From book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226134611
- Label
- From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America
- Title
- From Eve to evolution
- Title remainder
- Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America
- Statement of responsibility
- Kimberly A. Hamlin
- Subject
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- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences -- History -- 19th century
- Feminism and science
- Feminism and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- History
- 1800 - 1899
- Women's rights
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This work provides a study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Here the author reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve's sin forever fixed women's subordinate status, embraced Darwinian evolution, especially sexual selection theory as explained in The Descent of Man, as an alternative to the creation story in Genesis. The author chronicles the lives and writings of the women who combined their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with their commitment to women's rights, including Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Eliza Burt Gamble, Helen Hamilton Gardener, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These Darwinian feminists believed evolutionary science proved that women were not inferior to men, that it was natural for mothers to work outside the home, and that women should control reproduction. The practical applications of this evolutionary feminism came to fruition, it si shown, in the early thinking and writing of the American birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger. In contrast to the extensive scholarship that has been dedicated to analyzing what Darwin and other males evolutionists had to say about women, this work offers information on what women themselves had to say about evolution. -- From book jacket
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- Hamlin, Kimberly A
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Feminism and science
- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
- Women's rights
- Darwin, Charles
- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
- Feminism and science
- Women's rights
- United States
- Label
- From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America, Kimberly A. Hamlin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-228) and index
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- txt
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226134611
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2013037257
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- (OCoLC)858672935
- 8491560
- Label
- From Eve to evolution : Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America, Kimberly A. Hamlin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-228) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226134611
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2013037257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)858672935
- 8491560
Subject
- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences -- History -- 19th century
- Feminism and science
- Feminism and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- History
- 1800 - 1899
- Women's rights
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
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