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SUMMARY:'We the tormentors\, the destroyers': death\, emotions and gender 
 in entomology - Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Scie
 nce)
DTSTART:20191118T130000Z
DTEND:20191118T140000Z
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CONTACT:Jules Skotnes-Brown
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores a female entomologist's feelings towards t
 he insects she collected during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th cen
 tury. Entomology\, ostensibly an exact and objective science\, was in actu
 ality filled with emotions\, such as the aesthetic joy derived from the be
 auty and diversity of insects\, and the excitement and heightened emotions
  of the hunt. This paper will place a special focus on the gendered aspect
 s of the relationship between death and natural history\, and how entomolo
 gists felt about killing insects and turning them into specimens\, by focu
 sing on the lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine. Fountaine's entire life revo
 lved around entomology and her collection\, but she was also deeply confli
 cted\, and oscillated between the joy of the hunt and the beauty of her ca
 ptures\, and pity and guilt over killing the insects. In her diary she hab
 itually anthropomorphised butterflies and portrayed them as having feeling
 s\, while she herself sometimes felt as a murderer for killing them. Howev
 er\, these emotions were repressed in her scientific writing\, illustratin
 g one facet of the gendering of emotions among entomologists.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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