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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture
1 Pico, Paracelsus, and Dee: The Magical Measure of Human Perfectibility
2 Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah, and the Feminine Principle
3 Odd Bodies: Reviewing Corporeal Difference in Early Modern Alchemy
4 “Put Out of Her Course”: Images of the Monstrous in de Bry’s Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America
5 The Animal Within: Chivalry, Monstrosity, and Gender in Renaissance Spain
6 Experiments with Alchemy: Caterina Sforza in Early Modern Scientific Culture
7 Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan’s Daughter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Manuscript Representations of Women Alchemists
8 Women and Chymistry in Early Modern England: The Manuscript Receipt Book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges
9 Cats on a Windowsill: An Alchemical Study of Marie de Gournay
10 Whither Childbearing: Gender, Status, and the Professionalization of Medicine in Early Modern France
11 Touching and Telling: Gendered Variations on a Gynecological Theme
Bibliography
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