Abstract
AbstractThis article addresses the subject of women's roles in and around the literary and philosophical societies of the new manufacturing towns of the early Industrial Revolution. Some male members of the societies argued in favour of women's education and even their political rights, but in practice women were not allowed to join. Women did participate, but in forms determined by gendered understandings of modes of knowledge exchange. Ideas of public and private may have shaped women's access to scientific space in the period, but they were far from defining the terms of their everyday experience of a complex, diversified terrain.
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