Subtitle: Clémence Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science
Author: Joy Harvey
Subject: History of Science/Women's Studies
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2397-4
Pages: 304 pp. 12 b & w illus.

A controversial Frenchwoman, Clémence Royer confronted gender issues embedded in nineteenth-century science. This compelling full-scale biography examines Royer not only as Darwin's first French translator, but as social Darwinist, anthropologist, cosmologist, and feminist who challenged women's traditional roles and masculine social and scientific authority. (A Volume in the Lives of Women in Science Series, edited by Pnina Abir-Am)

Joy Harvey is a historian of science who has most recently been an associate editor of the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University.