In The Tunnel Miriam begins to interrogate past and current scientific discourses on women. She is a highly critical reader of Social Darwinism
, and of Patrick Geddes
and his research assistant J. Arthur Thomson
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1889: Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson published...
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1889
Patrick Geddes
and J. Arthur Thomson
published their anti-feminist treatise The Evolution of Sex.
Mosedale, Susan Sleeth. “Science Corrupted: Victorian Biologists Consider ’The Woman Question’”. Journal of the History of Biology, Vol.
11
, No. 1, D. Reidel, 1 Mar.–31 May 1978, pp. 1-55.
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Jann, Rosemary. “Revising the Descent of Woman: Eliza Burt Gamble”. Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir, University of Wisconsin Press, 1997, pp. 147-63.