Gender and scientific discourse in early modern culture / edited by Kathleen P. Long.
In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. This volume investigates issues of gender and scientific discourse...
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Table of Contents:
- Pico, Paracelsus and Dee : the magical measure of human perfectibility / Elliott M. Simon
- Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah and the feminine principle / Alain Ekorong
- Odd bodies : reviewing corporeal difference in early modern alchemy / Kathleen Long
- Put out of her course : images of the monstrous in de Bry's Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America / Sean Teuton
- The animal within : chivalry, monstrosity and gender in Renaissance Spain / Simone Pinet
- Experiments with alchemy : Caterina Sforza in early modern scientific culture / Meredith K. Ray
- Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan's daughter and the philosopher's stone : manuscript representations of women alchemists / Penny Bayer
- Women and chymistry in early modern England : the Manuscript receipt book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges / Jayne Archer
- Cats on a windowsill-an alchemical study of Marie de Gournay / Dorothea Heitsch
- Whither childbearing : gender, status and the professionalization of medicine in early modern France / Bridgette Sheridan
- Touching and telling : gendered variations on a gynecological theme / Kirk D. Read.