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Tables of Contents for Natural Eloquence
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
vii
2
Acknowledgments
ix
2
Contributors
xi
Part 1. Charting the Tradition
3
24
1. Introduction: Charting the Tradition
3
24
Barbara T. Gates
Ann B. Shteir
Part 2. Recuperating the Women
27
16
2. The Invisible Woman
27
16
Stephen Jay Gould
Part 3. Disseminating Knowledge: England
43
36
3. Fictionality, Demonstration, and a Forum for Popular Science: Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry
43
18
Greg Myers
4. Constructing Victorian Heavens: Agnes Clerke and the "New Astronomy"
61
18
Bernard Lightman
Part 4. Disseminating Knowledge: Canada, Australia, and America
79
68
5. Science in Canada's Backwoods: Catharine Parr Traill
79
19
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
6. The "Very Poetry of Frogs": Louisa Anne Meredith in Australia
98
18
Judith Johnston
7. "Through Books to Nature": Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement
116
31
Pamela M. Henson
Part 5. Defining and Redefining Knowledge: Post-Darwinian Women
147
32
8. Revising the Descent of Woman: Eliza Burt Gamble
147
17
Rosemary Jann
9. Revisioning Darwin with Sympathy: Arabella Buckley
164
15
Barbara T. Gates
Part 6. Defining and Redefining Knowledge: Into the Twentieth Century
179
36
10. Conflicting Scientific Feminisms: Charlotte Haldane and Naomi Mitchison
179
17
Susan Squier
11. Rachel Carson and Her Legacy
196
19
Rebecca Raglon
Part 7. Self-Fashioning
215
40
12. The Spectacle of Science and Self: Mary Kingsley
215
22
Julie English Early
13. "Ape Ladies" and Cultural Politics: Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas
237
18
James Krasner
Part 8. The Tradition Continues
255
12
14. Interview with Diane Ackerman, 18 July 1994
255
12
Barbara T. Gates
Ann B. Shteir
Selected Bibliography
267
4
Index
271