Shteir, Ann - Women's Studies

Personal Information
First Name: 
Ann
Nom: 
Shteir
Autre: 
Women's Studies and Humanities
Affiliation universitaire: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
22095
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Women's Studies
Objet: 
Science
Région géographique: 
Europe
Great Britain
Champ d'études: 
women, gender, and the history of science; women and botany; and mythology and visual culture.
Academics
PHD Program: 
Comparative Literature
PHD University: 
Rutgers University
PHD Date: 
1973
Major Publications: 
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in English 1760 to 1860(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1996); Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, co-edited with Bernard Lightman (Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, 2006). She prepared an edi tion of Priscilla Wakefield's late 18th - century book of popular science, Mental Improvement, or the Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art (1995), and edited a special issue of the journal Woman's Writing: Elizabethan to Victorian Period on "Women and Sc ience" (1995). With Barbara T. Gates she co - edited Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science (UWisconsin Pres s, 1997)
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
American Society for 18th-Century Studies; History of Science Society; British Society for the History of Science; Canadian Women's Studies Association
Courses Taught: 
Historical Perspectives on Women and Nature; Women and Culture; Science and Gender; Feminists before Feminism: Early Voices