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Author:   Kathleen P. Long
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138266070

ISBN 10:   1138266078
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture, Kathleen P. Long; Chapter 1 Pico, Paracelsus, and Dee: The Magical Measure of Human Perfectibility, Eliott M. Simon; Chapter 2 Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah, and the Feminine Principle, Alain Ekorong; Chapter 3 Odd Bodies: Reviewing Corporeal Difference in Early Modern Alchemy, Kathleen P. Long; Chapter 4 “Put Out of Her Course” : Images of the Monstrous in de Bry’s Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America, Sean Teuton; Chapter 5 The Animal Within: Chivalry, Monstrosity, and Gender in Renaissance Spain, Simone Pinet; Chapter 6 Experiments with Alchemy: Caterina Sforza in Early Modern Scientific Culture, Meredith K. Ray; Chapter 7 Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan’s Daughter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Manuscript Representations of Women Alchemists, Penny Bayer; Chapter 8 Women and Chymistry in Early Modern England: The Manuscript Receipt Book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges, Jayne Elisabeth Archer; Chapter 9 Cats on a Windowsill: An Alchemical Study of Marie de Gournay, Dorothea Heitsch; Chapter 10 Whither Childbearing: Gender, Status, and the Professionalization of Medicine in Early Modern France, Bridgette Sheridan; Chapter 11 Touching and Telling: Gendered Variations on a Gynecological Theme, Kirk D. Read;

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'... a rewarding and worthwhile read. ... It represents a significant contribution to a field desperately in need of new scholarship.' Renaissance Quarterly 'A rich collection, worthy of close attention from early modern scholars... provides the reader with significant lessons regarding the collision of gender and early modern scientific enterprise.' Early English Studies 'In undertaking this work, the authors and the editor have taken the rehabilitation work begun by Allen Debus and others to the next stage in what is a brilliant and exciting demonstration of the value of studying alchemical texts.' Parergon 'Many chapters provide interesting clues concerning female authorial identity and authority in early modern medicine and alchemy.' AMBIX ’Readers will find a great deal to engage them across science and medicine, theory and practice, literature, art, travel, political and women’s work, labour and writing to name but a few.’ Social History of Medicine

'... a rewarding and worthwhile read. ... It represents a significant contribution to a field desperately in need of new scholarship.' Renaissance Quarterly 'A rich collection, worthy of close attention from early modern scholars... provides the reader with significant lessons regarding the collision of gender and early modern scientific enterprise.' Early English Studies 'In undertaking this work, the authors and the editor have taken the rehabilitation work begun by Allen Debus and others to the next stage in what is a brilliant and exciting demonstration of the value of studying alchemical texts.' Parergon 'Many chapters provide interesting clues concerning female authorial identity and authority in early modern medicine and alchemy.' AMBIX 'Readers will find a great deal to engage them across science and medicine, theory and practice, literature, art, travel, political and women's work, labour and writing to name but a few.' Social History of Medicine

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Kathleen P. Long is Professor of French at Cornell University and the author of Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

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