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Gendered Touch
Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe
Series: - Nuncius Series, Volume: 9
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 â both women and men â such as craftspeople, physicians, alchemists, apothecaries, music theorists, natural philosophers, and natural historians.
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 dâétudes at the EHESS, Paris.
Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.
Antonella Romano is directrice dâétudes at the EHESS, Paris.
Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.
"[...] rich and insightful [...] ." â Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Liège), 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 endeavorâ. â Natalie Tomas, Monash University / Australian Catholic University, Australia, in: Renaissance Quarterly 77:2 (2024), pp. 665 - 667
"(...) 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 endeavorâ. â Natalie Tomas, Monash University / Australian Catholic University, Australia, in: Renaissance Quarterly 77:2 (2024), pp. 665 - 667
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe
âFrancesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia
1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition
âLucia Raggetti
2 Mariaâs Practica in Early Modern Alchemy
âMatteo Martelli
3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Womenâs Expertise and Menâs Explanation
âPaolo Savoia
4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment
âJuliet Claxton
5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy
âSabrina Minuzzi
6 The âAnonymous Neapolitanâ: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences
âPaula Findlen
7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772â1792)
âFrancesca Antonelli
8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France
âAmparo Fontaine
Postface
On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science
âPaola Govoni
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe
âFrancesca 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
âLucia Raggetti
2 Mariaâs Practica in Early Modern Alchemy
âMatteo Martelli
Part 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century
3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Womenâs Expertise and Menâs Explanation
âPaolo Savoia
4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment
âJuliet Claxton
5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy
âSabrina Minuzzi
Part 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge
6 The âAnonymous Neapolitanâ: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences
âPaula Findlen
7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772â1792)
âFrancesca Antonelli
8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France
âAmparo Fontaine
Postface
On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science
âPaola Govoni
Index
Scholars and graduate students of history of science, technology and medicine, early modern history, European history, cultural history, music history, food history, and gender studies; libraries.