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.

"[...] rich and insightful [...] ." – Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Liège), in: Early Science and Medicine 28 (2023), pp. 691-695."(...) this an excellent collection which furthers our understanding of women, gender, and science in early modern Europe. It demonstrates the myriad ways in which scientific discoveries and gendered conceptions of knowledge-making could be produced in early modern Europe, and the opportunities and barriers women faced when participating in that field of endeavor”. – Natalie Tomas, Monash University / Australian Catholic University, Australia, in: Renaissance Quarterly 77:2 (2024), pp. 665 - 667

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern EuropeFrancesca Antonelli and Paolo SavoiaPart 1: The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic TraditionLucia Raggetti2 Maria’s Practica in Early Modern AlchemyMatteo MartelliPart 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Women’s Expertise and Men’s ExplanationPaolo Savoia4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly EntertainmentJuliet Claxton5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-EconomySabrina MinuzziPart 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge6 The “Anonymous Neapolitan”: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of SciencesPaula Findlen7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772–1792)Francesca Antonelli8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century FranceAmparo FontainePostfaceOn Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in SciencePaola GovoniIndex