Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760-1830: from modest shoot to forward plant.
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Contains full texts of rare botanical poems by eighteenth-century women. This title engages with popular and provoking debates on sexuality, as women's study of the modern sexual system of botany was perceived to threaten female modesty. Introduction; 1. 'The Sweet Flowers..... More