A Women's Scientific Society in the West
The Late Eighteenth-Century Assimilation of Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4176162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret C Jacob (University of California, Los Angeles), Dorothee Sturkenboom |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-252 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/379385 |
| PMID | 12879556 |
| OpenAlex | W2030685974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Natuurkundig Genootschap der Dames (Women's Society for Natural Knowledge), formally established by and for women, met regularly from 1785 to 1881 and sporadically until 1887. It challenges our stereotypes both of women and the physical sciences during the eighteenth century and of the intellectual interests open to women in the early European republics. This essay aims not simply to identify the society and its members but to describe their pursuits and consider what their story adds to the history of Western science. What does this society's existence tell us about the relationship between women and early science in general and about science and society in the Dutch setting in particular? Science and gender look rather different when observed through the activities of the immensely prosperous women of Middelburg, citizens of one of the most highly literate Western countries. The elite lives of the first-generation members of the women's society also offer us a glimpse into the early domestication of science, a process vital to its acceptance and assimilation
Biology · Domestication · Elite · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Women in science · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Science and Natural History · Law
Choosing the Better Part
A History of the University in Europe
The History and Philosophy of Women in Science
Gender and Science
Reading Children's Books in Late Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Families
Gender and the historiography of science
Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery
Newton in the Nursery
Conversation Pieces
Managing an Experimental Household
Women in the History of Science
Gendered Spaces, Gendered Audiences
Intimate Inmates
Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy
In from the Periphery
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2009 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |