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To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in this volume, Anna Sagal reveals how women's participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors.

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Sagal’s book sheds light on how domestic femininity, as a social construct, was nearly incompatible with learning science. Her argument is clever and controversial: the very constraints under which women engaged with the natural sciences were also the means by which they entered into this arena." - Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia, author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760–1820

Botanical Entanglements Women Natural Science

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 8/18/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813946955, 978-0813946955
      ISBN10: 0813946956

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      Book Synopsis
      To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in this volume, Anna Sagal reveals how women's participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors.

      Trade Review
      Sagal’s book sheds light on how domestic femininity, as a social construct, was nearly incompatible with learning science. Her argument is clever and controversial: the very constraints under which women engaged with the natural sciences were also the means by which they entered into this arena." - Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia, author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760–1820

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