Stenhouse -- Environment, culture, and the reception of Darwin in Canada, 1859-1909 / Suzanne Zeller -- Darwinism in the American South / Ronald L. Numbers and Lester D. Stephens -- Darwinism, American Protestant thinkers, and the puzzle of motivation / Jon H. Roberts -- Exposing Darwin's "hidden agenda": Roman Catholic responses to evolution, 1875-1925 / R. Scott Appleby -- American Jewish responses to Darwin and evolutionary theory, 1860-1890 / Marc Swetlitz -- Black responses to Darwinism, 1859-1915 / Eric D. Anderson -- "The irrepressible woman question": women's responses to evolutionary ideology / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Mark R. Jorgensen.

"This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Essays spanning the world from Great Britain and North America to Australia and New Zealand explore the various meanings of Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference race, religion, and gender made in the debates over evolution."--Jacket.