From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

by Kimberly A. Hamlin

Book Overview

From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve's sin forever fixed women's subordinate status, embraced Darwinian evolution--especially sexual selection theory as explained in The Descent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022632477X
• ISBN13: 9780226324777
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"