Chapter 1 - Shaping Scientific Knowledge: Maria Graham's Travels in Nineteenth-Century
Chapter 2 - Gertrudis Gómez de Avelleneda's Travel Writings: Beyond Optical Illusions of the Soul
Chapter 3 - Nísia Floresta Voyages through Europe: Transatlantic Perspectives on Nature, Progress, and Women's Education
Chapter 4 - Beyond the Laboratory Walls: Doris Cochran's Strategies to Build a Reputation as a Scientist in the Early Twentieth-Century

This book combines Latin American literature, cultural and gender studies, and history of science to consider the literary perspective of the discourse of natural history in women's travel narratives, shedding a new light on the implications of women's contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual currents.