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01774aam a2200277Mi 4500 001 7A473DBC81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151103010200 008 150825r20152014ilu f b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 022632477X (pbk.) 020 $a 9780226324777 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)920376416 040 $a CDX $c CDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d SILO 050 4 $a HQ1191.U6 $b H35 2014 100 1 $a Hamlin, Kimberly A., $e author. 245 10 $a From Eve to evolution : $b Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America / $c Kimberly A. Hamlin. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2015. 300 $a vii, 248 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Hamlin 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. --from back cover. 650 0 $a Feminism and science $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women's rights $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20151103032027.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A473DBC81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search