Gendered Touch

Francesca Antonelli holds a Phd in History of Science at the University of Bologna and the EHESS, Paris. She is currently Postdoc fellow at the University of Bologna. Antonella Romano is directrice d’études at the EHESS, Paris. Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.

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