Refreshingly interdisciplinary, Floras Fieldworkers is replete with new information and insights, even on known figures like Dalhousie and Traill. The volume offers innovative perspectives on womens involvement in botany and plant culture, making strides in the historiography on science in Canada and the fields of women, gender, and science. Donald L. Opitz, DePaul University [ Floras Fieldworkers] challenges the equation of amateur with unskilled and insignificant and brings women botanists out of the shadows, giving their rigorous investigations the scientific credibility they deserve. This fascinating gathering of academic essays shows women collectors as astute observers and appreciators of plants in the wild. Literary Review of Canada Floras Fieldworkers is a richly stimulating collection of studies looking at specific 19th-century Canadian (and Australian) women from a wide variety of situations who were engaged with the plant world in a wide variety of ways, and often under- or even unappreciated. It provides welcome views into Canadian botanical, cultural, and social history. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Floras Fieldworkers is an ambitious collection of new scholarship on womens botanical labor in nineteenth century Canada. Excitingly interdisciplinary and broadly accessible, this new volume is a significant contribution to the study of gender, identity, and class in early histories of women and science. Isis Excitingly interdisciplinary and broadly accessible, this new volume is a significant contribution to the study of gender, identity, and class in early histories of women and science. Floras Fieldworkers will be invaluable to future work on womens botanical study throughout the British colonies and will surely become a model for the kinds of scholarly labor possible through truly interdisciplinary research into the history of women in science. Isis
