Gendered Touch : Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe (Nuncius Series)

Antonelli, Francesca (EDT)/ Romano, Antonella (EDT)/ Savoia, Paolo (EDT)

Brill（2022/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 306 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004512603
• DDC分類 500.82094

Full 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.

Contents

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 Secrétaire (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