| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Nina Baym. American Women of Letters and the Nineteeth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 265. Cloth $60.00, paper $22.00.
The role of women in the historical development of American science has been well established. Through the work of Margaret W. Rossiter and others, historians are now aware of both the difficulties faced by and the achievements of women scientists. Faced with numerous barriers, from denial of educational opportunities to lack of recognition for their work, women nonetheless contributed significantly to several disciplines and often played important roles in institutional developments. Although much work remains to be done in order to provide a more complete portrait of American women scientists, their contributions are no longer invisible.	1
Noted literary scholar Nina Baym, however, has chosen to examine a different aspect of women's roles in science. Focusing on well-educated New England women in the decades surrounding the Civil War, she explores the ways in which they contributed to science without, in fact, being scientists. Because these women had access to scientific knowledge through their education (women's schools of the time included science in their curricula), public lectures, and the growing body of popular science writing, many of them became "affiliated" with science in diverse ways.	. . .

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