Female Scientific Networks of the British Empire during the Long Eighteenth-Century

欧洲科学史上的知识实践和信息网络一直是重要的新科学史和帝国史的焦点，特别是受到拉图尔（1987）和贝利（1999）的影响。然而，目前的文献忽略了女性的机构，尽管在18世纪末和世纪初的决定性时期，女性在全球科学网络中发挥了至关重要的作用。父权制的社会习俗掩盖了妇女对全球知识创造的科学贡献，历史编纂学几乎没有做任何补救。这个令人兴奋的新项目解决了科学和帝国史学中的这一差距，这是早就应该的（Davids &货车德里尔2002，霍克斯沃思，2018）。将性别史与科学史和新帝国史相结合，它将揭示女性科学网络在职业化成为改革时代规范之前的关键形成时期的功能和重要性。

Knowledge practices and information networks in the history of European science have been the focus of significant new histories of science and empire, particularly influenced by Latour (1987) and Bayly (1999). However, the current literature ignores female agency despite the crucial role women played in global science networks during the decisive period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Patriarchal social conventions obscured women's scientific contributions to global knowledge-making and the historiography has done little to remedy this. This exciting new project addresses this gap in the historiography of science and empire that is long overdue (Davids & van Driel 2002, Hawksworth, 2018). Combining gender history with history of science and new imperial history, it will reveal the functioning and importance of women's scientific networks in this crucially formative period before professionalism became the norm in the reform era.