Table of Contents:
  • Iconographies of flora : the goddess of flowers in the cultural history of botany / Ann B. Shteir
  • A passion that transforms : picturing the early natural history collector / Alan Bewell
  • Figuring nature/ figuring the (fe)male : the frontispiece to Humboldt's ideas towards a Geography of plants / Joan Steigerwald
  • Picturing sexual selection : gender and the evolution of ornithological illustration in Charles Darwin's Descent of man / Jonathan Smith
  • Nature by design : masculinity and animal display in nineteenth-century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
  • Gender and genre in victorian scientific photography / Jennifer Tucker
  • Scrapbook science : composite caricatures in late Georgian England / James Secord
  • Those who drew and those who wrote : women and Victorian popular science illustration / Barbara T. Gates
  • Depicting nature, defining roles : the gender politics of Victorian illustration / Bernard Lightman
  • Gendered collaborations : marrying art and science / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
  • Looking for Jean Dow : narratives of women and missionary medicine in modern China / Margo S. Gewurtz
  • Images of expertise : women, science, and the politics of representation / Lorraine Code
  • Men in white, women in aprons : utopian iconographies of TV doctors / Janine Marchessault
  • The fetal voyager : women in modern medical visual discourse / Annette Burfoot
  • Visible/ human project : visibility and invisibility at the limits of the next anatomical frontier / Naomi Adelson.