Women and Gardens - by Judith M Taylor (Paperback)
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- Judith M. Taylor's Women and Gardens highlights the depth and breadth of women's influence on gardens and landscapes in the last two hundred years and reveals many unknown or intentionally ignored facts concerning the roles of women in gardening and their contributions to horticultural science.
- About the Author: Judith M. Taylor is the author of The Olive Tree in California: History of an Immigrant Tree; The Global Migrations of Ornamental Plants: How the World Got into Your Garden; Tangible Memories: Californians and Their Gardens, 1800-1950; and Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past.
- 216 Pages
- Gardening, General
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About the Book
"Judith M. Taylor's Women and Gardens highlights the depth and breadth of women's influence on gardens and landscapes in the last two hundred years and profiles many unknown or intentionally ignored facts concerning the roles of women in gardening and their contributions to horticultural science. Divided into eight chapters, Taylor explores the history of women in horticulture, landscape design, and ornamental plant breeding from the Victorian to today"--Book Synopsis
Judith M. Taylor's Women and Gardens highlights the depth and breadth of women's influence on gardens and landscapes in the last two hundred years and reveals many unknown or intentionally ignored facts concerning the roles of women in gardening and their contributions to horticultural science. Over eight chapters that investigate the obstacles and opportunities women have encountered in gardening, this book explores the history of women in horticulture, landscape design, and ornamental plant breeding from the Victorian era to today.Review Quotes
"'Women hold up half the sky'--so the saying goes. But they have almost certainly done more than half the weeding, watering, and digging. This book will certainly help set the record straight, revealing and documenting the contribution of countless women through garden history."--Noel Kingsbury, author of Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden
"Although the influence of women on gardens is deep and persistent, the role of women in gardening across the centuries has been largely undocumented, except by women themselves in letters and very infrequently in books written by women. This sampling of the history of women in gardens brings together wonderful stories of the effort, skill, and intelligence women have brought to the discipline."--Judith Phillips, author of The Gardens of Los Poblanos
"As in her previous books, Judith M. Taylor expertly sheds light on the historical framework of the horticultural sector, addressing the socioeconomic aspects that influenced its development. The book focuses on how women, throughout the centuries, have been been penalized by male hegemony, which has relegated them to humanistic cultural activity and kept them away from the ambit of science. Horticulture has ancient roots, and the relationship between horticulture and women began with the care of the home and the health of relatives and then evolved into the figurative arts and writing. Only recently have women made forays into science and technological applications of the horticultural sector. Through a significant gallery of women who have worked in horticulture over the centuries in the shadow of men, Taylor highlights the problem of the poor access that women have historically had to the sciences."--Margherita Beruto, chair of the International Society for Horticulture Science
"Judith M. Taylor is, without doubt, recognized internationally as today's foremost horticultural historian. Her body of work ranges across a wide spectrum of horticultural facets. In all her work Judith is relentless in seeking information, irrespective of the language in which it is recorded. Her latest book, Women and Gardens, is especially timely as long-term gender bias, in all fields of endeavor, is being challenged throughout the western world. Judith demonstrates and records conclusively that despite earlier bias, many women have indeed made significant and lasting contributions to ornamental horticulture worldwide for a long time."--Keith Hammett, past president of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture
"Here is a book that brings to our attention the mostly untold story of women who played prominent roles in the development of many aspects of horticulture throughout history. From research to writing, propagation, cultivation, experimentation, design, education, landscape architecture, and so much more, Judith M. Taylor has brought together a cast of characters who helped shape gardens and gardening around the world and through the centuries."--Wesley Brittenham, former director of horticulture at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm
"Judith Taylor's book yields a bountiful harvest of stories illustrating the interdependence of gender and gardening. Starting with the history of how women became displaced from their traditional roles as growers of food and medicine, Taylor unearths inspiring and surprising tales of women who overcame obstacles as planters, scientists, landscape designers, and gardening artists and through their work often produced the wider foundations of women's liberty."--Laura C. Nelson, author of Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
About the Author
Judith M. Taylor is the author of The Olive Tree in California: History of an Immigrant Tree; The Global Migrations of Ornamental Plants: How the World Got into Your Garden; Tangible Memories: Californians and Their Gardens, 1800-1950; and Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past.Dimensions (Overall): 9.03 Inches (H) x 6.11 Inches (W) x .67 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: Gardening
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: Unm Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Judith M Taylor
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 2025
TCIN: 94589426
UPC: 9780826367839
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-4986
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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