Major Publications:
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in English 1760 to 1860(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1996); Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, co-edited with Bernard Lightman (Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, 2006).
She
prepared an edi
tion of Priscilla Wakefield's late 18th
-
century book of popular science,
Mental
Improvement, or the Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art
(1995), and edited a special
issue of the journal
Woman's Writing:
Elizabethan to Victorian Period
on "Women and
Sc
ience"
(1995).
With Barbara T. Gates she co
-
edited
Natural Eloquence:
Women
Reinscribe Science
(UWisconsin Pres
s, 1997)
Membre des sociétés académiques:
American Society for 18th-Century Studies; History of Science Society; British Society for the History of Science; Canadian Women's Studies Association
Courses Taught:
Historical Perspectives on Women and Nature; Women and Culture; Science and Gender; Feminists before Feminism: Early Voices
