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Patriotic Women: Chemistry and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World (2022)

Serrano, Elena (Author)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 69
Issue: 3
Pages: 243-261

DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2097492

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2022.2097492

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Scientific collaboration Authorship Useful knowledge Knowledge circulation Social networks Societies; institutions; academies Science and gender Women in science Chemistry 18th century Spain

During the second half of the eighteenth century, Western countries witnessed an explosion of societies and publishing initiatives aimed at creating and disseminating what contemporaries called useful knowledge. These “economic societies,” “societies of friends of the country,” or “societies of improvers” sought to improve their local communities through the scientific management of natural and social resources. This article analyses the opportunities that this movement of patriots opened up for women in chemistry, who went from being “exceptional women” to representing themselves as female “friends of the country.” This article shows the different ways in which these women “friends of the country” negotiated their authorship, agency, and public visibility in order to maintain gender conventions and the importance of their kinship networks. It also illustrates the other side of the coin: how women’s contributions also benefited male scientific societies, which gained visibility and secured the social position of their members in enlightened circles.

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Article Elena Serrano; Joris Mercelis; Annette Lykknes (2022) 'I am not a Lady, I am a Scientist.': Chemistry, Women, and Gender in the Enlightenment and the Era of Professional Science. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 203-220). unapi

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