Publications

Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.  pp. 301.  Paperback edition 1999. Selected as ACLS Humanities E-Book 2007.

ed., Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, with Bernard Lightman. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press/ University Press of New England, 2006. pp. 385

ed., Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, with Barbara T. Gates. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.  pp. 280

ed., Graduate Women's Studies: Visions and Realities. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education, 1996.  pp. 120

ed., Priscilla Wakefield's "Mental Improvement, or the Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art,”  East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1995. pp. 171

ed., Women on Women (The Gerstein Lectures), North York: York University, 1978.

“’She comes! – the GODDESS!’ Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden,” Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain, ed. Christine Lehleiter. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015, pp. 72-96.

“Bluestockings and Goddesses: Writing Feminist Cultural History,” Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy, ed. Meg Luxton and Mary Jane Mossman. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2012, pp. 130-49.

“A Vindication and the Imperative of History: Reviving Wollstonecraft for Future Feminisms,” with Katherine Binhammer, Not Drowning But Waving: Feminism and the Liberal Arts, ed. Susan Brown et al. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp 237-50.

“Sensitive, Bashful, and Chaste? Articulating the Mimosa in Science,” in Science in the Market Place: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences, ed. Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman. Chicago: University  of  Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 169-195.

“Iconographies of Flora: The Goddess of Flowers in the Cultural History of Botany,” in Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, co-edited with Bernard Lightman, Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England, 2006, pp. 3-27.

“Flora primavera or Flora meretrix? Iconography, Gender, and Science,” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 36, ed. Jeffrey S. Ravel. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. 147-68.

"Women and the Natural World: Expanding Horizons at Home,” Intrepid Women: Victorian Women Artists Travel, ed. Jordana Pomeroy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 67-76.

“’Let us examine the flower’: Botany in Women’s Magazines, 1800-1830,” Science Serialized: The Representation of the Sciences in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical, ed. Geoffrey Cantor & Sally Shuttleworth. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 2004, pp. 17-36.

“Green-Stocking or Blue? Science in Three Women’s Magazines, 1800-1850,” Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, ed. Louise Henson et al. Aldershot:  Ashgate Publishing, 2004, pp. 3-13.

"Finding Phebe:  A Literary History of Women’s Science Writing," Women and Literary History: “For There She Was,” ed. Katherine Binhammer & Jeanne Wood.  Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2003.  pp. 152-66.

"’With matchless Newton now one soars on high’: Representing Women’s Scientific Learnedness in England," in Concepts and Symbols of the Eighteenth Century in Europe: Conceptualizing Women in Enlightenment Thought, ed. Hans Erich Bödeker & Lieselotte Steinbrügge. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2001. pp. 115-28.

"Elegant Recreations? Science Writing for Women," Victorian Science in Context, ed. Bernard Lightman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. pp. 236-55.

"Making the Vision a Reality: York University's Graduate Programme in Women's Studies," Graduate Women's Studies: Visions and Realities. North York:  Inanna Publications and Education, 1996: 2-9.

"'The pleasing objects of our present researches': Women in Botany," Women and History: Early Modern England 1600-1800. ed. Valerie Frith. Concord, ON:  Irwin Publishing, 1995.  pp. 145-163

"Botany in the Breakfast-Room:  Women and Early Nineteenth-Century British Plant Study," Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives:  Women in Science, 1789-1979, ed. Dorinda Outram and Pnina Abir-Am, New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 1987.  pp. 31-43

"Linnaeus's Daughters: Women and British Botany," Women and the  Structure of Society, ed. Barbara J. Harris and JoAnn K. McNamara, Durham, N.C.:  Duke University Press, 1984.  pp. 67-73

"Collecting with 'botanical friends': Four Women in Colonial Quebec and Newfoundland," with Jacques Cayouette. Scientia Canadensis. 41.1 (2019): 1-30.

“’Fac-similes of Nature’: Victorian Wax Flower Modelling,” Victorian Literature and Culture 35 (2007), 2: 649-661.

“Bentham for ‘Beginners and Amateurs’ and Ladies: Handbook of the British Flora, Archives of Natural History 30 (2003), 2: 237-49.

“The Women’s Studies Ph.D.: Report from a Conference,” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 27.1 (Fall/Winter 2002): 53-58.

"Gender and 'Modern' Botany in Victorian England," in Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions, ed. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt & Helen E. Longino, Osiris 12 (1997): 29-38.

"The Women's Studies Ph.D.: A Report from the Field," Women's Studies Quarterly 25:1-2 (1997): 388-402.

"Flora Feministica: Reflections on the Culture of Botany," Lumen, ed. David Oakleaf  (Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies), XII (1993): 167-76.

"'Conversable rather than Scientific': Women and Late Enlightenment Science Culture in England," Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment. 1992. pp. 768-72.

"Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women's Science Writing in England," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23.3 (Spring 1990): 301-17.

"Priscilla Wakefield's Books ' For the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons'," Friends' Quarterly, April 1988, pp.90-6.

"From Wakefield to Becker: Introductory Botany Books and Women" in Women in Science:  Options and Access. Budapest:  National Museum of Science and Technology, 1987.  pp. 198-217

"'A Connecting Link': Women, Popularization, and the History of Science," Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche feministe (Special Issue on "Women and Science") 15.3 (November 1986): 38-9.

"Women and Plants--A Fruitful Topic," Atlantis 6.2 (Spring 1985): 114-22.

"Priscilla Wakefield's Natural History Books," in From Linnaeus to Darwin:  commentaries on the history of biology and geology, London:  Society for the History of Natural History, 1985.  pp. 29-36

"Albrecht von Haller's Botany and `Die Alpen'," Eighteenth Century Studies 10.2 (1976-77): 169-84.

Jim Endersby. Orchids: A Cultural History (University of Chicago 2016), Annals of Science  3 (April 2017), 243-5.

Theresa M. Kelley. Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2012), Isis 104 (December 2013), 4: 857.

Shelley King & Yael Schlick, eds., Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press 2008). Eighteenth-Century Fiction 25 (2013), 2: 456-8.

Stephen Harris, Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden 1501-1900 (2011), Isis 103 (March 2012), 1: 158-59.

Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009), University of Toronto Quarterly 80 (Spring 2011), 2: 339-40.

Ruth Watts, Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) and Sam George, Botany, sexuality and women’s writing 1760-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), Gender and History 21 (August 2009), 2: 441-2.

Peter Ayres, The Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008), Isis, 100 (June 2009), 2: 407-408.

Susan Swan, What Casanova Told Me (Alfred Knopf, 2004), Canadian Woman Studies: les cahiers de la femme 25 (Summer/Fall 2006): 3, 4: 208-9.

Jill H. Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), Londa Schiebinger & Claudia Swan, ed., Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters 1760-1820 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), Eighteenth-Century Studies 40:1 (2006), 120-123.

Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2004), Isis 97:1 (2006): 157-8.

Carol Armstrong & Catherine de Zegher, eds. Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature (New York: The Drawing Center and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), Journal of the History of Biology 38:3 (2005): 615-16.

Judith Phillips Stanton, ed., The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, Atlantis 29.1 (Fall 2004), 120-21.

Nina Baym,   American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation, for South Central Review 21 (Summer 2004), 2: 79-80.

Marina Frasca-Spada & Nick Jardine, eds. Books and the Sciences in History,  Isis 93:2 (2002), 281-2.

James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,” Social History 27:2 (2002), 247-8.

Michel Canon, ed. Perspectives on Garden Histories, Isis 91:2 (2000), 322-3.

Londa Schiebinger, Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science, Isis 87:4 (1996): 730-31.

Elizabeth B. Keeney, The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in 19th-Century America, Isis 84:3 (1993): 588-89.

Patricia Phillips, The Scientific Lady: A Social History of Woman's Scientific Interests 1520-1918, Archives of Natural History, 19:1 (1992):141.

Lynn L. Merrill, The Romance of Victorian Natural History, Isis 81:4 (1990): 309.

Katharine M. Rogers & William McCarthy, eds., The Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers: British Literary Women from Aphra Behn to Maria Edgeworth 1660-1800 and Janet Todd, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, 11:2 (Fall 1990).

Maureen McNeil, Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and his Age, and Ludmilla Jordanova, ed., Languages of Nature:  Critical Essays on Science and Literature, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22:2 (1988-89), 242-47.

Ruth Perry, The Celebrated Mary Astell, and Bridget Hill, ed., The First English Feminist:  Reflections on Marriage and Other Writings by Mary Astell, Canadian Women's Studies/les cahiers de la femme, 9:2 (Summer 1988): 94-5.

Bridget Hill, ed., Eighteenth-century Women: An Anthology, in Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche feministe, 1984, vol. 13, no. 2.

“Women and Natural History,” History and Mystery: Notes and Queries from the newsletters of The Society for the History of Natural History,” ed. Charles Nelson. London: Archives of Natural History, 2010. 70-1.

Introduction, “Beyond The Big Divide? The Humanities and Social Sciences in Women’s Studies,” Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la Recherche Féministe 32 (2007), no.3/4: 9-12.

Oxford  Dictionary of National Biography: entries on Anna Blackburne, Amelia Warren Griffiths, Agnes Ibbetson, Maria E. Jacson, Elizabeth Kent, Mary Kirby, Phebe Lankester, Jane Loudon, and Priscilla Wakefield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Biographical Dictionary of 19^th-Century British Scientists: entries on Anna Maria Hussey, Maria E. Jacson, Priscilla Wakefield, Phebe Lankester, and Agnes Ibbetson. Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press, 2003.

Guest Editor, "Women and Science," Special Issue of Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period, 2:2 (1995).  pp. 197

"Women and Part-Time Graduate Study," in Not Satisfied Yet: Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Graduate Students. York University, 1992.

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present: entries on Margaret Bryan, Jane Marcet, Ann Murry, (Sarah) Lady Pennington, Anne Plumptre, Annabella Plumptre, Mary Wray, Miss M. Woodland. ed. Virginia Blain, Isobel Grundy, and Patricia Clements. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800: entries on Priscilla Wakefield, Mary-Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Cobbold, Maria Hunter, Mary Robinson, and Maria Regina Roche. ed. Janet M. Todd; Totowa, N.J.:  Rowman and Allanheld, 1984.

"Sexual Harassment: York University's Response," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, 4:4 (Summer/August 1983).

ed., The Report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Sexual Harassment,  North York: York University, 1982.