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The Sexes and the Sciences (2019)

Wagner, Darren N. (Author)
Wharton, Joanna (Author)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 42
Issue: 4
Pages: 399-413

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-0208.12663

DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12663

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Women in science Societies; institutions; academies Case studies Historiography Terminology and nomenclature Science and gender 18th century

This is an introduction to a special issue on the theme ‘The Sexes and the Sciences’. Here we provide useful context for the ensuing research articles by way of discussing specific terms (‘science’ and ‘sex’), detailing relevant historiographies and presenting select, illuminating case studies. Taken as a whole, this special issue demonstrates that eighteenth-century scientific understandings of the sexes – male and female – were diverse and debated, and that, while formal scientific institutions and publications were almost exclusively comprised of men, their gendered relationships were various, and numerous women still meaningfully contributed to science as both practitioners and patrons.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Jon Mee (2019) ‘Some Mode Less Revolting to Their Delicacy’: Women's Institutional Space in the Transpennine Enlightenment, 1781-1822. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 541-556). unapi

Article Millie Schurch (2019) ‘All the Productions of That Nature’: Ephemera, Mycology and Sexual Classification at the Bulstrode Estate. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 519-539). unapi

Article Elena Serrano (2019) Sex and Prisons: Women and Spanish Penitentiary Reform, 1787-1808. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 501-517). unapi

Article Mary McAlpin (2019) Denis Diderot and the Masturbating Girl. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 487-500). unapi

Article Raymond Stephanson (2019) Fictional Science and Genre: Ectogenesis and Parthenogenesis at Mid-Century. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 471-486). unapi

Article Karen Harvey (2019) Epochs of Embodiment: Men, Women and the Material Body. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 455-469). unapi

Article Lisa Wynne Smith (2019) Remembering Dr Sloane: Masculinity and the Making of an Eighteenth-Century Physician. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 433-453). unapi

Article Karen Hollewand (2019) Eggs, Sperm and Desire: Sex and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 415-432). unapi

Article Andrew Monnickendam (2019) Ann Cook versus Hannah Glasse: Gender, Professionalism and Readership in the Eighteenth-Century Cookbook. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 175-191). unapi

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