Gendered Touch : Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe /
Gendered Touch : Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe /
Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe
edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia.
- 1 online resource.
- Nuncius Series ; 9 .
- Nuncius Series ; 9. .
The history of science, the history of women, and gender history – Gendered Touch offers new perspectives on the intersections between the textual and the embodied nature of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Part One. The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist -- 1. Maria the Alchemist and her Famous Heat Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition Lucia Raggetti -- 2. Maria’s Practica in Early Modern Alchemy / Part Two. Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Cheese-making and Knowledge-making: Women’s Expertise and Men’s Explanation / 4. Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-century Courtly Entertainment / 5. Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds, and Small Scale-Economy / Part Three. Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered knowledge -- 6. The “Anonymous Neapolitan”: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences / 7. Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772-1792) / 8. Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in Eighteenth-century France / Postface -- On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science / Name Index. Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia -- Matteo Martelli -- Paolo Savoia -- Juliet Claxton -- Sabrina Minuzzi -- Paula Findlen -- Francesca Antonelli -- Amparo Fontaine -- Paola Govoni --
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.
9789004512610 9789004512603
10.1163/9789004512610 DOI
2022012127
Women scientists--Europe--Biography.
Women in science--History.--Europe
Communication in science--History.--Europe
Q141
509.2/52
The history of science, the history of women, and gender history – Gendered Touch offers new perspectives on the intersections between the textual and the embodied nature of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Part One. The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist -- 1. Maria the Alchemist and her Famous Heat Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition Lucia Raggetti -- 2. Maria’s Practica in Early Modern Alchemy / Part Two. Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Cheese-making and Knowledge-making: Women’s Expertise and Men’s Explanation / 4. Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-century Courtly Entertainment / 5. Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds, and Small Scale-Economy / Part Three. Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered knowledge -- 6. The “Anonymous Neapolitan”: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences / 7. Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772-1792) / 8. Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in Eighteenth-century France / Postface -- On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science / Name Index. Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia -- Matteo Martelli -- Paolo Savoia -- Juliet Claxton -- Sabrina Minuzzi -- Paula Findlen -- Francesca Antonelli -- Amparo Fontaine -- Paola Govoni --
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.
9789004512610 9789004512603
10.1163/9789004512610 DOI
2022012127
Women scientists--Europe--Biography.
Women in science--History.--Europe
Communication in science--History.--Europe
Q141
509.2/52