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Founding Editor: Pnina Abir-Am Series Editor: Ann Hibner Koblitz
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"Almost a Man of Genius" Clmence Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science, by Joy Harvey
"Almost a Man of Genius"
CLMENCE ROYER, FEMINISM, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE
JOY HARVEY
Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harvey, Joy Dorothy. "Almost a man of genius": Clmence Royer, feminism, and nineteenth-century science / Joy Harvey. p. cm. - (Lives of women in science) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8135-2397-4 (alk. paper) 1. Royer, Clmence, 1830-1902. 2. Naturalists-France-Biography. 1. Title. II. Series. QH31.R787H38 1997 509' .2-dc2196-39286 [B]CIP
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Copyright 1997 by Joy Harvey All rights reserved. Translations from the French are by the author. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, Livingston Campus, Bid. 4161, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. The only exception to this prohibition is "fair use" as defined by U.S. copyright law.
Manufactured in the United States of America
To the memory of my mother, Dorothy Hanfling Colby, a woman of intellect and courage
Page vii
CONTENTS
Series Editor's Foreword
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1 A Fire of the Mind: Family, Childhood, and Youth of Clmence Royer
5
2 The Question of Abuse and a Mission to Fulfill
24
3 Mind and Love Awaken: Royer in Switzerland
42
4 "True Science ": Translating Darwin, Seeking a New Life
62
5 Motherhood, Social Theory, and Social Realities
80
6 "A Little Scientific Church ": Royer Returns to Paris
103
7 "Woman Is Not Made Like This "
122
8 Years of Trial: A Search for Universal Laws
140
9 "I See Young and Old Coming towards Me " The Final Years
166
Afterword: Clmence Royer and Her Biographers
184
Appendix: Clmence Royer on Women, Society, and the Birthrate ("Sur la natali")
193
Notes
205
Bibliography
251
Index
261
Page ix
FOREWORD
Readers at the interface of history of science and women's studies are by now familiar with Joy Harvey's superb essay on Clmence Royer, published almost a decade ago in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789- 1979, a collection of essays that played a key role in Rutgers University Press's establishing a series dedicated specifically to the lives of women in science.1 Now Harvey expands the scope of that essay to encompass the first book-length study in English of Royer, a nineteenth-century French woman thinker, who wrote extensively on science, philosophy, feminism, and their interaction, for both specialist and popular audiences.2Harvey explores the "anomaly" of Royer's life and work as a pioneering woman of science whose scientific ideas and professional career had to come to terms with the problem of gender and science, most notably in connection with the widely debated implications of Darwin's theory of evolution for man and woman's place in both nature and society.3
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