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Women's Month - Day twenty-one
Aug. 21st, 2020 11:30 pmAntoinette Brown Blackwell
I was going to write about Charles Darwin's wife and her circle of friends, who I believed helped him quite a lot in his work by gathering, labelling and examining the difference in various specimens, and basically did the legwork that helped him oversee the samples as a whole and come up with his theories. But I can't find any mention of that now when I google it, so just in case I was wrong, or whatever I read was wrong, or I'm mixing him up with another scientist, have Antoinette Brown Blackwell instead, a woman who challenged his more sexist later theories (and behaviour) based on the fact that he was a man and probably biased, even though educated.
Male scientists, Blackwell wrote, stood on “a learned masculine eminence, looking from their isolated male standpoints through their men’s spectacles and through the misty atmosphere of entailed hereditary glamour.”
Brilliant. She also challenged the Bible, religious attitudes and universities on their lack of equality for women, as well as anyone who said she couldn't be a minister in her chosen religious branch.
I was going to write about Charles Darwin's wife and her circle of friends, who I believed helped him quite a lot in his work by gathering, labelling and examining the difference in various specimens, and basically did the legwork that helped him oversee the samples as a whole and come up with his theories. But I can't find any mention of that now when I google it, so just in case I was wrong, or whatever I read was wrong, or I'm mixing him up with another scientist, have Antoinette Brown Blackwell instead, a woman who challenged his more sexist later theories (and behaviour) based on the fact that he was a man and probably biased, even though educated.
Male scientists, Blackwell wrote, stood on “a learned masculine eminence, looking from their isolated male standpoints through their men’s spectacles and through the misty atmosphere of entailed hereditary glamour.”
Brilliant. She also challenged the Bible, religious attitudes and universities on their lack of equality for women, as well as anyone who said she couldn't be a minister in her chosen religious branch.
