Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830: From modest shoot to forward plantManchester University Press, 2017 M10 3 - 272 páginas In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. |
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floral femininity and female education | 22 |
botany and the feminine | 43 |
3 Sex class and order in Floras army | 81 |
botany and sexual anxiety in the late eighteenth century | 105 |
British flora and the fair daughters of Albion | 153 |
Conclusion | 175 |
Key of the Sexual System | 185 |
Botanical poems by women | 189 |
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