Flora Unveiled

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Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

1. The Quandary Over Plant Sex 1


2. The Discovery of Sex  11


3. Crop Domestication and Gender  29


4. Plant- Female Iconography in Neolithic Europe  69


5. Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens  85


6. Mystic Plants and Aegean Nature Goddesses  138


7. The “Plantheon” of Greek Mythology  182


8. Plant Sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus  210


9. Roman Assimilation of Greek Myths and Botany  229


10. From Herbals to Walled Gardens: Plant Gender and Iconography  251


11. Troubadours, Romancing the Rose, and the Rebirth of Naturalism 286


12. The Difficult Birth of the Two- Sex Model  322


13. Plant Nuptials in the Linnaean Era  350


14. Behind the Green Door: Love and Lust in Eighteenth- Century Botany  379


15. Wars of the Roses: Ideology Versus Experiment  404