Contents

Essays

  • The Cloister and the Square: Gender Dynamics in Renaissance Florence
    —Mary D. Garrard
     
  • Kinship and the Marginalized Consort: Giovanna d’Austria at the Medici Court
    —Catherine Ferrari
     
  • Literacy and Education among Judeo-conversa Women in Castile, Portugal, and Amsterdam, 1560–1700
    —Sara Nalle
     
  • Hobby and Craft: Distilling Household Medicine in Eighteenth-Century England
    —Katherine Allen

Forum: Women and Early Modern Science
 
  • Adjusting the Lens: Locating Early Modern Women of Science
    —Nina Rattner Gelbart
     
  • “Lady Phoenix”: Margaret Cavendish and the Poetics of Palingenesis
    —Anne M. Thell
     
  • “My Method and Medicines”: Mary Trye, Chemical Physician
    —Sara Read
     
  • Collecting the World in Her Boudoir: Women and Scientific Amateurism in Eighteenth-Century Paris
    —Margaret Carlyle
     
  • A Spanish Midwife Appeals to the King: Luisa Rosado’s Challenge to Eighteenth-Century Male Medical Corporatism
    —Paloma Moral de Calatrava
     
  • Medical Discourse, Women’s Writing, and the “perplexing Form” of Eighteenth-Century Hysteria
    —Heather Meek
     
  • Networks, Patronage, and Women of Science During the Italian Enlightenment
    —Leigh Whaley
     
  • Muslim Women and Science: The Search for the “Missing” Actors
    —Margaret Gaida