Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Gevirtz, Karen Bloom

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“…However, in the eighteenth century, the lineage of human sexual difference was quite different from what it is today: the lingering notion of humoral permits menstrual men phenomena; microscopic forms of female and male seed were relatively new observations, and their properties were generally unknown. (Gevirtz 2014) Natural philosopher and physicians have also taken particular notice of apparently disrupted sexual division systems. In the early modern debates about monster and marvels, e.g., in JakobRüff's De conceptu et générationehominis (Little Book of Consolation) (1554) and Ambroise Paré's Des monstres et prodigies (Book of Monsters and Prodigies) (1575), Hermaphroditism was a major subject.…”

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An Exhibit of Inferiority: The Contours of Gender Science

Kashyap¹

2022

IJMRR

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This is an introduction to a distinct perspective on the subject of varied experience of science by both the genders since early modern times. In the research paper that follows, I attempt to offer helpful contexts in which key concepts, science and sex, are discussed, relevant historiographies detailed and particular, enlightening case studies presented. This special outlook shows, taken in its entirety, that gender scienceincluding both men and women -was diverse and debated during the eighteenth century and that while there were almost exclusively men in formal scientific institutions and publishing houses, their gender relationships were varied. Numerous women still made significant contributions as practitioners and patrons in scientific research.

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An Exhibit of Inferiority: The Contours of Gender Science

Kashyap¹

2022

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“Some Man” and the Savage

Dicus

2015

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A ‘prodigious latitude’ of words: vocabularies of illness in 18th-century medical treatises and women’s writing

Meek

2021

Med Humanities

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In its examination of a selection of 18th-century medical treatises and women’s writing, this essay considers a range of context-specific and historically specific medical vocabularies and tries to illuminate the various linguistic registers of physicians’ and women’s understandings and experiences of physio-emotional illness. In a preprofessionalised world in which medical and literary cultures overlapped significantly and medical knowledge was not yet restricted to a group of formally trained male elites, vocabularies of illness abounded, oftentimes moving freely between the permeable disciplinary boundaries of the age. Physician writers, in their efforts to define and label the cluster of related conditions commonly known as spleen, vapours, melancholy, or hypochondriacal and hysterical affliction, often operated on a principle of humility, embracing uncertainty, admitting fault and assuming a willingness to question their own assumptions. They recognised that elusive processes were at the heart of these conditions, which came with a vast amalgam of physical and psychological symptoms, as well as a long list of possible designations. For their part, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Leapor, Elizabeth Tollet, Anna Seward and Susanna Blamire interpreted with a keen eye the medical information available to them, deployed the plethora of words at their disposal and created their own vocabularies of illness. As they formulated a productively unstable, fluctuating lexicon to conceptualise and define spleen and its analogous conditions, these women writers came up with new words and inventive metonyms, and drew at once on the language of medicine, social and domestic inequality, and the natural world to capture experiences of suffering.

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Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Cited by 5 publications

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An Exhibit of Inferiority: The Contours of Gender Science

An Exhibit of Inferiority: The Contours of Gender Science

“Some Man” and the Savage

A ‘prodigious latitude’ of words: vocabularies of illness in 18th-century medical treatises and women’s writing

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