Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West, Burlington, ON L7T 1J1
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Join Rusty Shteir and guests for a presentation of her new book, Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada.

Guests panelists include contributing book authors, and RBG’s Erin Aults, Librarian and Archives Specialist, MLIS, and RBG’s Herbarium Curator and Field Botanist, Nadia Cavallin.

For more details about the event and for tickets, visit https://www.rbg.ca/events/floras-fieldworkers.

An account of women plant collectors and botanical artists, writers, and teachers whose activities went unrecognized in the historical record. Featuring figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia, Flora’s Fieldworkers reconstructs the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century.

“Refreshingly interdisciplinary, [Flora’s Fieldworkers] offers innovative perspectives on women’s 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

Ann Shteir is professor emerita and senior scholar in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University.