Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Long, Kathleen P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. How do early scientific discourses infiltrate other cultural domains such as literature, philosophy, court life, and the conduct of households? How do these new contexts deflect scientific pursuits into new directions, and allow a larger participation in the elaboration of scientific methods and perspectives? Might there have been a scientific subculture, particularly surrounding alchemy, which allowed women to participate in scientific pursuits long before they were admitted in an investigative capacity into official academic settings? This volume poses those questions, as a starting point for a broader discussion of scientific subcultures and their relationship to the restructuring and questioning of gender roles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317130567
• Artikelnr.: 49353597

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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;