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04204aam a2200481 i 4500 001 AFDE7266CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200422s2021 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020004550 020 $a 1138607711 020 $a 9781138607712 035 $a (OCoLC)1138489565 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a QH361 $b .R52 2021 082 00 $a 576.80941 $2 23 100 1 $a Richards, Evelleen, $e author. 245 10 $a Ideology and evolution in nineteenth century Britain : $b embryos, monsters, and racial and gendered others in the making of evolutionary theory and culture / $c Evelleen Richards. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, $c 2021. 300 $a xii, 343 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Variorum collected studies ; $v CS1089 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Romantic embryos, radical monsters, and racial others in evolutionary theorising -- "Metaphorical mystifications": the romantic gestation of nature in British biology -- A question of property rights: Richard Owen's evolutionism reassessed -- The "moral anatomy" of Robert Knox: the interplay between biological and social thought in Victorian scientific naturalism -- A political anatomy of monsters, hopeful and otherwise: teratogeny, transcendentalism, and evolutionary theorising -- Part II. Darwinian science, good wives, the "shrieking sisterhood", suffering animals, and radical birth control: Darwin and the descent of woman -- Huxley and woman's place in science: the "woman question" and the control of Victorian anthropology -- Redrawing the boundaries: Darwinian science and Victorian women intellectuals -- "The greatest of all possible evils to mankind": Annie Besant vs. Darwin at the Knowlton trial and beyond. 520 $a "Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the highly politicised roles of embryos and monsters in pre- and post- Darwinian evolutionary theorizing, including Darwin's; several studies of the intersection of Darwinian science and its practitioners with issues of gender, race and sexuality, featuring a pioneering contextual analysis of Darwin's theory of sexual selection; and explorations of responses to Darwinian science by notable Victorian women intellectuals, including the crusading anti-feminist and ardent Darwinian, Eliza Lynn Linton, the feminist and leading anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe, and Annie Besant, the bible-bashing, birth-control advocate who confronted Darwin's opposition to contraception at the notorious Knowlton Trial"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) $x History $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) $x History $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Feminism and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Anti-feminism $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Racism in anthropology $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Anti-feminism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810336 650 7 $a Evolution (Biology) $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917325 650 7 $a Feminism and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922745 650 7 $a Racism in anthropology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086650 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Richards, Evelleen, $t Ideology and evolution in nineteenth century Britain $d New York : Routledge, 2020. $z 9780429467042 $w (DLC) 2020004551 830 0 $a Collected studies ; $v CS1089. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023336.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AFDE7266CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search