Gender and modern botany in Victorian England / by Ann B. Shteir.
Abstract:
'John Lindley's distinction between botany as science and as polite accomplishment signaled a campaign in early Victorian England to defeminize the field by defining a scientific botany for middle-class men. His bifurcated identification of polite botany with women and botanical science with men illustrates the directions that botanical culture took during the succeeding decades.'
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory 1943- Women, gender, and science. p. 29-38