Ebook: Gender and scientific discourse in early modern culture

1. Pico, Paracelsus and Dee : the magical measure of human perfectibility / Elliott M. Simon -- 2. Guillaume Postel, the Shechinah and the feminine principle / Alain Ekorong -- 3. Odd bodies : reviewing corporeal difference in early modern alchemy / Kathleen P. Long -- 4. "Put out of her course" : images of the monstrous in de Bry's Illustrations of Atalanta fugiens and the America / Sean Teuton -- 5. The animal within : chivalry, monstrosity and gender in Renaissance Spain / Simone Pinet -- 6. Experiments with alchemy : Caterina Sforza in early modern scientific culture / Meredith K. Ray -- 7. Madame de la Martinville, Quercitan's daughter and the philosopher's stone : manuscript representations of women alchemists / Penny Bayer -- 8. Women and chymistry in early modern England : the Manuscript receipt book (c. 1616) of Sarah Wigges / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- 9. Cats on a windowsill : an alchemical study of Marie de Gournay / Dorothea Heitsch -- 10. Whither childbearing : gender, status and the professionalization of medicine in early modern France / Bridgette Sheridan -- 11. Touching and telling : gendered variations on a gynecological theme / Kirk D. Read.