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Darwin, Becker & Sexual Equality
J. S. Mill, caricatured in Vanity Fair as "feminine" for his promotion of sexual equality Charles Darwin is not well known as a promoter of women’s rights. Indeed, much of his work explicitly opposed...
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“One of the cleverest and oddest women in Europe”
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and...
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Darwin and Feminism
As previous posts have shown, Darwinian evolution acted in some ways to shore-up established Victorian ideas about intellectual, breadwinning masculinity and reproductive, maternal femininity. In...
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Lady Florence Dixie: a woman who had it all?
On October 29th 1880, Lady Florence Dixie wrote a letter to Charles Darwin from her home in the Scottish Borders; “Whilst reading the other day your very interesting account of A Naturalist’s Voyage...
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Harvard Project #1: The Amazing Dar-Man
Following the success of last year’s collaboration, the Darwin and Gender project is delighted to team up again with students at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University....
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Harvard Project #2: “Man has Ultimately Become Superior to Woman”– or has he?
Following the success of last year’s collaboration, the Darwin and Gender project is delighted to team up again with students at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University....
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‘The Evolution of Woman’ versus ‘The Descent of Man’
Eliza Burt Gamble Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was...
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