Article ID: CBB001212004

Chemistry in the City: The Scientific Role of Female Societies in late Eighteenth-Century Madrid (2013)

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Serrano, Elena (Author)


Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 60, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 139-159


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Sites of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century.”
Language: English

During the last decades of the long eighteenth century, two closely related female societies, the Junta de socias de honor y mérito and the Asociación de señoras, performed a series of chemical activities in a variety of sites around the city of Madrid. The Asociación experimented with methods of air purification in Madrid jails, while the Junta based in the City Hall was involved in experiments concerning the quality of dyes and on infant feeding in the Foundling House. Due to their double social condition---aristocratic and female---these women were entitled to enter both the salons and the poorest parts of the city. They mobilised experts and objects, connected learned elites, politicians, craftsmen and scientific institutions, and were key agents in the circulation of knowledge. This paper explores the different roles these societies played in shaping new urban scientific sites.

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Authors & Contributors
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.
Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W.
Wharton, Joanna
Antonelli, Francesca
Wagner, Darren N.
Sturkenboom, Dorothée
Concepts
Science and gender
Women in science
Societies; institutions; academies
Chemistry
Geographical studies of science
Biographies
Time Periods
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Spain
Great Britain
England
French Guiana
South America
United States
Institutions
Natuurkundig Genootschap der Dames
Habsburg, House of
Royal Society of London
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