The article examines a Western panorama of performances of the female sex since the end of the 1960s. The representation of the female sex in contemporary art has been a mode of expression of the feminism of artists seeking, ...

In medieval tradition, the uterus was represented as an empty vessel meant to be filled by the phallus or the embryo. In the mid-16th century, however, Andreas Vesalius renewed scientific illustration by presenting ...

To William Osler, a firm grasp of the history of medicine was integral to the formation of a good doctor. This conviction drove his decision to amass a history of medicine library for the McGill Medical Faculty. Osler’s ...

What do a Venus by Sandro Botticelli, a Madonna by Gentile da Fabriano and Helen of Troy by Zanobi Strozzi have in common? In these paintings, the vulva has been extracted from the groin of the female figure and moved to ...

In our work, we focused on the eighth of the twelve emblems of Louis de Caseneuve, (?-1645), a Jesuit from a bourgeois family in Tournon, entitled Nascentem damna uenantur (Misfortunes strike the one who is born). The first ...

Amidst the Querelle des femmes, a series of discourses pertinent to the establishment of gender emerged from the first printing presses, as evidenced by medieval texts such as Les Lamentations de Mathéolus, Les Évangiles ...

Using wordplay, Clément Marot expressed his difficulty in describing the female sex. Around the same period, successful attempts were made in the “blasons du con”, composed at a time when medicine brought a finer knowledge ...

Considered both the enigmatic emblem of femininity and the source of all women’s ailments, the uterus has long been the object of male medical speculations, fantasies, and interpretations. In early modern Europe, dissecting ...

This article responds to the need for a cross-disciplinary approach to the iconography of anatomy and alchemy. In these two fields, the recurrent representations of the female body, or iconogyny, in a number of publications ...

Perfectly symmetrical and facing each other, the two beautiful nudes depicted in Andreas Vesalius’s Epitome (1543) can be considered an artistic introduction to the anatomical investigation of sexed bodies placed on an ...