Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images Kids / Activity Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection

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Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Alchemical Images Kids / Activity Rediscover the Puffin Classics collectionThe 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'