Gender and scientific discourse in early modern culture / edited by Kathleen P. Long.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Pico, Paracelsus and Dee : the magical measure of human perfectibility / Elliott M. Simon -- Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah and the feminine principle / Alain Ekorong -- Odd bodies : reviewing corporeal difference in early modern alchemy / Kathleen Long -- Put out of her course : images of the monstrous in de Bry's Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America / Sean Teuton -- The animal within : chivalry, monstrosity and gender in Renaissance Spain / Simone Pinet -- Experiments with alchemy : Caterina Sforza in early modern scientific culture / Meredith K. Ray -- Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan's daughter and the philosopher's stone : manuscript representations of women alchemists / Penny Bayer -- Women and chymistry in early modern England : the Manuscript receipt book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges / Jayne Archer -- Cats on a windowsill-an alchemical study of Marie de Gournay / Dorothea Heitsch -- Whither childbearing : gender, status and the professionalization of medicine in early modern France / Bridgette Sheridan -- Touching and telling : gendered variations on a gynecological theme / Kirk D. Read.

Includes bibliographical references and index.