Gendered touch : : women, men, and knowledge-making in early modern Europe / / edited by Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, and Paolo Savoia.

• Superior document: Nuncius ; 9.
• TeilnehmendeR: Antonelli, Francesca,; Romano, Antonella,; Savoia, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Nuncius ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations.

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, history, and science in early modern Europe / Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia -- Maria the alchemist and her famous heated bath in the Arabo-Islamic tradition / Lucia Raggetti -- Maria's Practica in early modern alchemy / Matteo Martelli -- Cheese-making and knowledge-making : women's expertise and men's explanation / Paolo Savoia -- Making marmalade and conserving fruit within the architecture of seventeenth-centruy courtly entertainment / Juliet Claxton -- Wome in secrets : medical inventions between household, guilds, and small scale-economy / Sabrina Minuzzi -- The "anonymous Neapolitan" : Faustina Pignatelli and the Bolgna Academy of Sciences / Paula Findlen -- Note-taking and self-promotion : Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772-1792) / Francesca Antonelli -- 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.