Gender and scientific discourse in early modern European culture
By: edited by Kathleen Perry Long
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669715; 9780754697633
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pico, Paracelsus and Dee : the magical measure of human perfectibility / Elliott M. Simon; title: Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah and the feminine principle / Alain Ekorong; title: Odd bodies : reviewing corporeal difference in early modern alchemy / Kathleen Long; title: Put out of her course : images of the monstrous in de Bry's Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America / Sean Teuton; title: The animal within : chivalry, monstrosity and gender in Renaissance Spain / Simone Pinet; title: Experiments with alchemy : Caterina Sforza in early modern scientific culture / Meredith K. Ray; title: Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan's daughter and the philosopher's stone : manuscript representations of women alchemists / Penny Bayer; title: Women and chymistry in early modern England : the Manuscript receipt book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges / Jayne Archer; title: Cats on a windowsill-an alchemical study of Marie de Gournay / Dorothea Heitsch; title: Whither childbearing : gender, status and the professionalization of medicine in early modern France / Bridgette Sheridan; title: Touching and telling : gendered variations on a gynecological theme / Kirk D. Read.