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Feminist networks beyond the science wars: the ‘female brain’ in the 1790s and the 1990s (2022)

Govoni, Paola (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 77
Issue: 2
Pages: 337-352

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0075

URI: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0075

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Knowledge circulation Women in science Feminist analysis Knowledge production (modes) Science and gender Comparison Science and technology studies (STS) Social networks 20th century, late 18th century Tambroni, Clotilde

This paper explores female networking practices by comparing cases two centuries apart, an experiment made possible by a history of science renewed by a mutually enriching dialogue with science, technology and society studies (STS). The first part analyses the networking strategies of Clotilde Tambroni (1758–1817), a scholar who managed a university career in Bologna under the shadow of the Napoleonic wars. The second part presents some results of ongoing research on the networking strategies of a group of female feminist evolutionary biologists who, by building a ‘Darwinian feminism’ tradition, offered an alternative response to the 1990s nature-versus-nurture clashes leading to the so-called science wars. Grappling with the myth of a ‘female brain’ and building diachronic as well as synchronic networks among women scholars in both the Napoleonic wars context and the end of the Cold War, the female scholars examined here transcended dualistic simplifications about the nature of knowledge typical of their times. The two cases suggest a long-term, integrated, gendered approach that finds concrete expression in the outcomes of some recent neuroscience research as well as in the ‘gendered innovations in science’ project mentioned in my conclusions.

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