Although the French Navy forbade women from sailing on their ships, Jeanne Baret became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Jeanne Baret - Inessa Kraft's photo project. Discovering Bougainvillea flower & traveling around the world.
Jeanne Baret didn't set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe when she stepped aboard the Etoile in 1766. Disguised as a man, the French botanist was looking for plants.
Jeanne Baret - Inessa Kraft's photo project. Discovering Bougainvillea flower & traveling around the world.
Whether it was traveling unaccompanied, flying a plane, or soaring into space, ambitious women throughout history have been met with the word "no" time and time again. So it’s remarkable that these 12 women—Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman among them—became pioneers in travel.
La historia de Jeanne Baret se escribió por encima de las exigencias del mundo en que vivimos. Acuarela sobre papel.
Jeanne Baret fue una botánica francesa y la primera mujer en dar la vuelta al mundo a través de sus océanos, mucho antes de que la oceanografía existiese como una ciencia. Fue entre 1767 y 1776 y tuvo que hacerlo disfrazada de hombre.
Jeanne Baret - Inessa Kraft's photo project. Discovering Bougainvillea flower & traveling around the world.
Hablamos de 'Científicas escondidas' con Marta Macho Stadler, que ha dado este nombre a la sección por todos los seudónimos y disfraces que tuvieron que utilizar algunas mujeres para poder estudiar y ejercer como los hombres de este campo.
Answering the call of the sea.
About The Discovery of Jeanne Baret The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembarked to explore, Baret carried heavy wooden field presses and bulky optical instruments over beaches and hills, impressing observers on the ships’ decks with her obvious strength and stamina. Less obvious were the strips of linen wound tight around her upper body and the months she had spent perfecting her masculine disguise in the streets and marketplaces of Paris. Expedition commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville recorded in his journal that curious Tahitian natives exposed Baret as a woman, eighteen months into the voyage. But the true story, it turns out, is more complicated. In The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, Glynis Ridley unravels the conflicting accounts recorded by Baret’s crewmates to piece together the real story: how Baret’s identity was in fact widely suspected within just a couple of weeks of embarking, and the painful consequences of those suspicions; the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret’s own hand, that proves her scientific acumen; and the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the showy vine bougainvillea. Ridley also richly explores Baret’s awkward, sometimes dangerous interactions with the men on the ship, including Baret’s lover, the obsessive and sometimes prickly naturalist; a fashion-plate prince who, with his elaborate wigs and velvet garments, was often mistaken for a woman himself; the sour ship’s surgeon, who despised Baret and Commerson; even a Tahitian islander who joined the expedition and asked Baret to show him how to behave like a Frenchman. But the central character of this true story is Jeanne Baret herself, a working-class woman whose scientific contributions were quietly dismissed and written out of history—until now. Anchored in impeccable original research and bursting with unforgettable characters and exotic settings, The Discovery of Jeanne Baret offers this forgotten heroine a chance to bloom at long last.
For two years, Jeanne Baret hid her gender to pursue her love of botany.
Jeanne Baret - Inessa Kraft's photo project. Discovering Bougainvillea flower & traveling around the world.
Birth/Death: July 27, 1740 – August 5, 1807 Quick Summary: Jeanne Barret was Born in Autun, France to day laborers who could barley scrape by. As a result of this upbringing she quickly lear…
The story of a fascinating beacon in women's history, an ordinary woman who overcame tradition and hostility to rise from meager origins to unique fame In 1765, eminent botanist Philibert Commerson was appointed official naturalist to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. Desperate not to be left behind, Jeanne Baret - Commerson's young mistress and collaborator - disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. Amid deceit and suspicion Baret travelled the world, surviving for two years on a boat with over one hundred men. When she next set foot on French soil she was the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose scientific contributions were quietly dismissed and written out of history - until now. In the Discovery of Jeanne Baret, Glynis Ridley unravels conflicting accounts recorded by Baret's crewmates to piece together the real story: how Baret's identity was in fact widely suspected within just a couple of weeks of embarking, and the painful consequences of those suspicions; the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret's own hand, that proves her scientific acumen; and the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the showy vine bougainvillea. Anchored in impeccable original research and bursting with unforgettable characters and exotic settings, Ridley brings to life Jeanne Baret and her pioneering journey, and offers this forgotten heroine a chance to bloom at long last.
A notable botanist, she sailed round the world dressed as a man. The ruse worked, at least for a while.
A Google lançou um novo desenho da série Doodle em seu mecanismo de busca e, desta vez, homenageia o 280º aniversário de Jeanne Baret, que foi a primeira mulher a circum-navegar o mundo. A exploradora e botânica esteve em uma expedição que descobriu mais de 6 mil espécies de plantas. Além de trazer um desenho inspirado em Jeanne Baret, a Google liberou rascunhos mostrando o processo de produção da homenagem, que foi concebida pela artista Sophie Diao. A empresa também agradeceu a botânica por abrir as portas para gerações de exploradores. Jeanne Baret nasceu em 27 de julho de 1740 em La Comelle, França. De origem humilde, começou a aprender sobre plantas com seus pais e, com o tempo, se tornou botânica. Sua consolidação no meio ocorreu após começar a trabalhar como tutora do filho de Philibert Commerson, botânico do rei Luis XVI, que foi o ponto de partida para os principais momentos de sua história. Commerson foi recomendado para uma viagem ao redor do mundo para descobrir novos territórios e espécies. O cientista aceitou a proposta e queria levar Jeanne Baret como sua ajudante, mas, naquela época, mulheres não podiam viajar de navio. Infiltrada Para driblar essa norma, a dupla teve uma ideia mirabolante: disfarçar Jeanne de homem. Utilizando ataduras e roupas largas, os dois conseguiram transformar a exploradora em um jovem chamado "Jean", que foi aceito na tripulação comandada pelo navegador Louis de Bougainville. A expedição partiu em 1766 e Jeanne conseguiu se infiltrar com maestria entre os marujos. Além de ajudar Commerson em suas pesquisas, a exploradora também tinha que realizar trabalhos pesados para manter as aparências. A viagem teve escalas em locais como Taiti e Ilhas Maurício, e Jeanne auxiliou na descoberta de mais de 6 mil espécies de plantas durante a jornada. Em 1768, porém, a verdadeira identidade da exploradora foi descoberta e, apesar de não ter sido presa, a jovem e Commerson tiveram que deixar a viagem.Doodle: Google homenageia Jeanne Baret, 1ª mulher a dar a volta ao mundo via TecMundo
Las que rescata este libro son pioneras que desafiaron su tiempo y en muchos casos fueron invisibilizadas.
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The unusual story of a ubiquitous plant.
Seit jeher teilen kräuterkundige und weise Frauen ihr Wissen. Ich möchte den Weltfrauentag zum Anlass nehmen, ein paar dieser beeindruckenden Kräuterfrauen vorzustellen.Frauen haben mit ihrem Wissen schon immer eine zentrale Rolle in der Kräuterkunde gespielt. Von Nonnen bis zu Abenteurerinnen und Schamaninnen, mutige Kräuterfrauen rund um die Welt haben Konventionen gebrochen, ihre Begabungen geteilt und wertvolles Kräuterwissen weitergebeben. Es folgen Portraits solcher beeindruckender Frauen
The unusual story of a ubiquitous plant.
Jeanne Baret. Botánica. Exploradora. Philibert Commerson. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Conde de Buffon. Joseph de Jussieu. Chevalier de Lamarck.
Námorníctvo bolo pre ženy dlhé roky tabu takmer na celom svete. Výnimkou nebolo ani Francúzsko, ktoré v minulosti bránilo ženám zúčastňovať sa objaviteľských plavieb. Aj táto prekážka na ceste k rodovej rovnosti však bola čoskoro prekonaná. Chtiac-nechtiac sa o to pričinila práve Jeanne Baret. Odvážna francúzska botanička snívala o cestovaní po svete už v mladom veku. Napriek tomu, že […]
The unusual story of a ubiquitous plant.
O Google Doodle de hoje 27/07 celebra a botânica e exploradora francesa Jeanne Baret em comemoração do seu 280º aniversário.
The unusual story of a ubiquitous plant.
Although the French Navy forbade women from sailing on their ships, Jeanne Baret became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
History is full of unrecognized women. That's not the most startling observation in the world; scribes throughout history have begrudged women any space in their important records of Kings And Emperors Doing Things, because ladies were just there to…
For more than two years she traveled on a French naval vessel with linen bandages wrapped tightly around her upper body to flatten her chest. It was a small ship with 300 men who knew her as Jean. But she wasn't Jean. She was Jeanne. Then one day, they found her out.
