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DESCRIPTION:Women botanists and plant collectors roamed North America looki
 ng for plant specimens to share\, to sell\, and to display in the late 19t
 h century. As we learn their stories\, we’ll explore why botany was a scie
 ntific pursuit that\, while vastly popular with both sexes\, was seen as a
  study particularly suited to women\, and we’ll look at the ways that wome
 n used their botanical knowledge as a way to secure employment for themsel
 ves out in the frontier. Finally\, we’ll see how women used their botanica
 l savvy to expand their social and intellectual networks beyond their limi
 ted domestic spaces\, especially by writing to professional botanists (usu
 ally on the East Coast) and engaging them in years-long discussions about 
 plant science.\n\n \n\n\n\nWatch on YouTube\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nTina G
 ianquitto is an associate professor of environmental humanities at the Col
 orado School of Mines. She has published a book on women\, nature and scie
 nce\, ‘Good Observers of Nature’: American Women and the Scientific Study 
 of the Natural World\, 1820-1885 (2007)\, a co-edited collection America’s
  Darwin: Darwinian Evolution and U.S. Literary Culture (with Lydia Fisher\
 ; 2014)\, as well as articles on Darwinian botany\, evolutionary science a
 nd women’s social reform\, and women’s participation in botanical correspo
 ndence networks. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowm
 ent for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and t
 he U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program. Current projects include a public plant
  story site: Herbaria 3.0: What is your plant story? (www.herbaria3.org) a
 nd a book that examines Darwin’s plant studies and evolutionary theory in 
 the late 19th-century U.S.\n\n \n\n \n
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LOCATION:fourth floor landing\, McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montr
 eal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: 'What a nuisance sex is!': Women Plant Collectors in 
 the 19th Century
URL:/library/channels/event/hybrid-event-what-nuisance
 -sex-women-plant-collectors-19th-century-346048
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