TY  - INPR
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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0072
ID  - discovery10168252
EP  - 10
Y1  - 2022/08/03/
SN  - 0035-9149
TI  - Enlightened Female Networks: Gendered Ways of Producing Knowledge (1720?1830)
AV  - public
PB  - ROYAL SOC
JF  - Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
A1  - Maerker, Anna
A1  - Serrano, Elena
A1  - Werrett, Simon
N1  - This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ER  -