TY - JOUR
T1 - Enlightened Female Networks
T2 - Gendered Ways of Producing Knowledge (1720-1830)
AU - Maerker, Anna
AU - Serrano, Elena
AU - Werrett, Simon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Royal Society Publishing. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This special issue investigates women's scientific networks in Europe roughly between 1720 and 1830, an interesting period from a gender point of view. The articles analyse the role that networks played in enabling, shaping and circumscribing women in their intellectual pursuits, social aspirations and ideals. They also focus on the nature of the members' relationships, how women negotiated their scientific identities and how often women could use their femininity to create new social spaces for themselves and their families. We traced different types of networks such as 'paper', 'technical', 'distant' (in its special and temporal sense), 'moral' and 'mixed', as well as how many of these networks were characterized by broad intellectual engagement that was never exclusively scientific, but also literary, poetic, educational and philosophical.
AB - This special issue investigates women's scientific networks in Europe roughly between 1720 and 1830, an interesting period from a gender point of view. The articles analyse the role that networks played in enabling, shaping and circumscribing women in their intellectual pursuits, social aspirations and ideals. They also focus on the nature of the members' relationships, how women negotiated their scientific identities and how often women could use their femininity to create new social spaces for themselves and their families. We traced different types of networks such as 'paper', 'technical', 'distant' (in its special and temporal sense), 'moral' and 'mixed', as well as how many of these networks were characterized by broad intellectual engagement that was never exclusively scientific, but also literary, poetic, educational and philosophical.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136578285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0072
DO - 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136578285
SN - 0035-9149
JO - Notes and Records
JF - Notes and Records
ER -