This paper explores female networking practices by comparing cases two centuries apart, an experiment made possible by a history of science renewed by a mutually enriching dialogue with science, technology and society studies (STS). The first part analyses the networking strategies of Clotilde Tambroni (1758–1817), a scholar who managed a university career in Bologna under the shadow of the Napoleonic wars. The second part presents some results of ongoing research on the networking strategies of a group of female feminist evolutionary biologists who, by building a ‘Darwinian feminism’ tradition, offered an alternative response to the 1990s nature-versus-nurture clashes leading to the so-called science wars. Grappling with the myth of a ‘female brain’ and building diachronic as well as synchronic networks among women scholars in both the Napoleonic wars context and the end of the Cold War, the female scholars examined here transcended dualistic simplifications about the nature of knowledge typical of their times. The two cases suggest a long-term, integrated, gendered approach that finds concrete expression in the outcomes of some recent neuroscience research as well as in the ‘gendered innovations in science’ project mentioned in my conclusions.

本文通过比较相隔两个世纪的案例来探索女性网络实践，通过与科学、技术和社会研究 (STS) 的相互丰富的对话来更新科学史，这一实验成为可能。第一部分分析了在拿破仑战争的阴影下在博洛尼亚管理大学生涯的学者克洛蒂尔德·坦布罗尼 (1758-1817) 的网络策略。第二部分介绍了一组女性女权主义进化生物学家正在进行的网络策略研究的一些结果，他们通过建立“达尔文女权主义”传统，为 1990 年代先天与后天的冲突提供了另一种回应，导致了如此-称为科学战争。与“女性大脑”的神话作斗争，并在拿破仑战争和冷战结束时在女性学者之间建立历时和共时网络，女性学者在这里研究超越了对知识本质的二元简化。他们的时代。这两个案例表明了一种长期的、综合的、性别化的方法，该方法在最近的一些神经科学研究的结果以及我在结论中提到的“科学中的性别化创新”项目中得到了具体体现。