This article introduces a collection of papers on women, gender, and chemistry in eighteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and the United States. After briefly surveying previous research on women and gender in science and outlining the long history of women in chemistry, we present this special issue’s main findings concerning several key themes, including the identities and strategies of women engaged in chemical activities and the enabling circumstances and networks that helped these women gain entry into male-dominated institutions and fields of study. We suggest that these overarching themes are equally relevant to the Enlightenment era and the late nineteenth- and early to mid-twentieth-century age of professional science, thus illustrating the benefits of jointly treating cases that might otherwise seem to have little in common.

本文介绍了 18 世纪和 20 世纪欧洲和美国有关女性、性别和化学的论文集。在简要回顾了以往关于女性和科学性别的研究并概述了女性在化学领域的悠久历史之后，我们介绍了本期特刊关于几个关键主题的主要发现，包括从事化学活动的女性的身份和战略以及有利的环境和网络这有助于这些女性进入男性主导的机构和研究领域。我们认为，这些首要主题与启蒙时代和 19 世纪末和 20 世纪中叶的专业科学时代同样相关，从而说明了联合治疗可能看起来几乎没有共同点的案例的好处。