Gendered Touch
Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe
Published on 17. June 2022
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-90-04-51260-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims at exploring how practical expertise, textual learning, and the gendered bodies intersected with the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. Gendered touch looks at both how representations of gendered bodies contributed to the production of knowledge, and at how practice itself was gendered. By exploring new archival material and by reading anew printed sources, the book inquiries about how knowledge was produced, translated, appropriated, and transmitted among different kinds of actors - both women and men - such as craftspeople, physicians, alchemists, apothecaries, music theorists, natural philosophers, and natural historians.
Reviews / Votes
"[...] rich and insightful [...] ." - Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Liege), in: Early Science and Medicine 28 (2023), pp. 691-695."(...) this an excellent collection which furthers our understanding of women, gender, and science in early modern Europe. It demonstrates the myriad ways in which scientific discoveries and gendered conceptions of knowledge-making could be produced in early modern Europe, and the opportunities and barriers women faced when participating in that field of endeavor". - Natalie Tomas, Monash University / Australian Catholic University, Australia, in: Renaissance Quarterly 77:2 (2024), pp. 665 - 667
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51260-3 (9789004512603)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Francesca Antonelli holds a Phd in History of Science at the University of Bologna and the EHESS, Paris. She is currently Postdoc fellow at the University of Bologna.
Antonella Romano is directrice d'etudes at the EHESS, Paris.
Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.
Antonella Romano is directrice d'etudes at the EHESS, Paris.
Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.
Content
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe
?Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia
Part 1: The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist
1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition
?Lucia Raggetti
2 Maria's Practica in Early Modern Alchemy
?Matteo Martelli
Part 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century
3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Women's Expertise and Men's Explanation
?Paolo Savoia
4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment
?Juliet Claxton
5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy
?Sabrina Minuzzi
Part 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge
6 The "Anonymous Neapolitan": Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences
?Paula Findlen
7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secretaire (1772-1792)
?Francesca Antonelli
8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France
?Amparo Fontaine
Postface
On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science
?Paola Govoni
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe
?Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia
Part 1: The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist
1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition
?Lucia Raggetti
2 Maria's Practica in Early Modern Alchemy
?Matteo Martelli
Part 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century
3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Women's Expertise and Men's Explanation
?Paolo Savoia
4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment
?Juliet Claxton
5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy
?Sabrina Minuzzi
Part 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge
6 The "Anonymous Neapolitan": Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences
?Paula Findlen
7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secretaire (1772-1792)
?Francesca Antonelli
8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France
?Amparo Fontaine
Postface
On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science
?Paola Govoni
Index