Equal Natures

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power. Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association In Equal Natures , Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially constructed forms of power and gender inequality. Focusing on phrenology-the first science of brain localization and the most popular science