Description: History from below uncovers overlooked protagonists contributing to (inter)national endeavour often against considerable odds. Mrs T. Edward Bowdich then Mrs R. Lee (1791–1856) is indicative. When women allegedly cannot participate in early nineteenth-century scientific exploration, discovery and publication, Sarah’s multiple specialist contributions to French and British natural history have attracted no book-length study. This first appraisal of Sarah’s unbroken production of discipline-changing scientific work over three decades – in modern ichthyology, in historical geography of West Africa and in the next-generational dissemination of expert scientific knowledge – does more than fill this gap. The book also pivotally investigates the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of Sarah’s pioneering perspectives and contributions, and how she could achieve her work independently in her own name(s) over three decades. Sarah’s larger significance is then to provide a very different narrative for women at work in expert nineteenth-century natural history-making. By everywhere challenging the secondary, minor and domestic frames for women’s contributions of the period, the pioneering perspectives of Sarah’s story also provide alternative paradigms to the ‘leaky-pipeline’ modelstill informing women’s careers and work in STEM(M) today.
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Subject Area: Travel, Science, History
Publication Name: Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natu
Publisher: Anthem Press
Item Length: 9 in
Subject: Women, Special Interest / Lgbt, Natural History
Publication Year: 2024
Series: Anthem Studies in Travel Ser.
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Author: Mary Orr
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 294 Pages
