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‘Some mode less revolting to their delicacy’: Women's Institutional Space in the Transpennine Enlightenment, 1781‐1822
Author(s) -
Mee Jon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12654
Subject(s) - delicacy , enlightenment , politics , subject (documents) , space (punctuation) , sociology , period (music) , gender studies , aesthetics , mode (computer interface) , social science , political science , law , epistemology , art , philosophy , linguistics , ecology , library science , computer science , biology , operating system
This 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.