Gendered touch: women, men, and knowledge-making in early modern Europe

"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 practic...

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Main Author: Antonelli, Francesca (Author)
Other Authors: Romano, Antonella 1962- (Editor), Savoia, Paolo 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2022
Series:Nuncius series Volume 9
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512610
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004512610
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9789004512610
DOI:10.1163/9789004512610