Why read From Eve to Evolution?

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

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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,…

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1 author picked From Eve to Evolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Michael Ruse

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I am a philosopher and historian of science whose specialty as a philosopher is evolutionary biology, and as a historian Charles Darwin and the revolution he sparked. Kimberly Hamlin’s book on Darwin's effect on late 19th-century feminists was entirely unknown to me and made me feel very humble.

It taught me things I did not know despite thinking of myself as an expert; the scholar in me rejoiced.

From Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2023.