Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images Kids / Activity Lost for half a century

Lost for half a century

Includes essays by Justin Clemens

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Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images Kids / Activity Lost for half a centuryThe images of women in this pioneering volume evolved from alchemical philosophy, in which gendered and sexualised concepts are used to describe physical matter and laboratory processes. When alchemical imagery arose in the late Middle Ages, images of women developed in ways that reflected wider social pressures. Building on scholarly studies of the increasing exclusion of women from public arenas in the early modern period, 'The Alchemical Feminine'