Women and the Great Darwinian Divide

From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago), by Miami University associate professor Kimberly A. Hamlin, proposes to examine "evolutionary theory through the lens of gender." The author seeks to show how key leaders of a "tiny but growing minority of white, middle-class American women" -- such as Helen Hamilton Gardner (1853-1925), Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-...