• Le sexe féminin dans l’art contemporain : un organe en performance 

  Nachtergael, Magali (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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, ...

• Dessiner pour voir 

  Boileau, Caroline (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  Thoughts on a drawing practice, accompanied by ten drawings.

• ‘Snatched Away’: Ageing Bias in Vulva Positive Social Media and Stock Photography Images of the Vulva 

  Daly, Kim (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  Although images of cis and trans women’s sexual anatomy are often taken up as acts of feminist pride, symbolizing women’s empowerment, images of older women’s genitals remain much less visible. In this study, I used visual ...

• Covering the Feminine Form in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine 

  Hague-Yearl, Mary (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Le pouvoir du végétal. Sexe et corail dans l’illustration anatomique moderne 

  Petrella, Sara (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• From Print to Wool: Vesalius and the ‘Knit your own womb’ Movement 

  King, Helen (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  The womb has been represented in many ways across Western European history, from miracle to sewer. This chapter begins with some of the earliest ways of showing the womb in printed materials. It then looks at what happens ...

• Le sexe, cet à-côté de la femme. Réceptions des images vulvaires en Italie au XVe siècle (Gentile da Fabriano, Sandro Botticelli) 

  Piccoli-Wentzo, Marie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• La Vie dans les plis : l’utérus marial dans quelques sermons catholiques français du XVIIe siècle 

  Régent-Susini, Anne (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  Gothic stainglasses are sometimes described as symbols of the Virgin’s hymen: they transform sunrays’ appearance without diminishing their light. For obvious reasons of bienséance, Mary’s birthing is not represented as ...

• Fleurir et flétrir : dires et savoirs sur la ‘nature’ cachée des femmes dans le discours médical aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles en France 

  Bujak, Victoria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  During the Renaissance, representations of the human body were at the heart of social and cultural concerns. The position of Man was essential to understanding the world. Women, in particular, became a subject of study ...

• L’appareil génital féminin dans les emblemata medica de Louis de Caseneuve (1626) 

  Koźluk, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Les mots du sexe au coeur de la Querelle des femmes à la Renaissance 

  Clavier, Tatiana (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Le sexe féminin et le regard de l’Autre dans la « Visio prima » du Catoptrum microcosmicum de Remmelin : « entre la Méduse et l’abîme » 

  Frelick, Nancy M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  In the introduction to their collective volume, The Body in Parts, David Hillman and Carla Mazzio use a psychoanalytic approach to examine the image of a supposed Medusa placed (overlayed) on top of an anatomical engraving ...

• Et Renart créa la femme : représentations du sexe féminin dans le Roman de Renart 

  Garnier, Nicolas (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  The Roman de Renart presents female genitals in five of its stories: in the Viol d’Hersent, Comment Renart Parfit le con, Renart nigromancien, the Confession Renart, and the Monstrance des culs. The texts use two common ...

• « Comment a nom » : nommer et représenter le sexe féminin chez les poètes de la première Renaissance 

  Chiron, Pascale (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Le « Moment Kobelt » ou l’hétérosexualité fondée organiquement 

  Chaperon, Sylvie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  Kobelt is credited with advancing the anatomy and physiology of the organs of genital pleasure. His knowledge is based on dry natural anatomical parts and the observation of mammalian copulation. But he is also the author ...

• Sexual Difference and the Uterus in Luis Mercado, Rodrigo de Castro, and Zacuto Lusitano 

  Pinheiro, Cristina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  Many treatises on gynaecology of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries describe the uterus as the cause of women’s diseases, according to a perspective inherited from the Hippocratic Corpus and Aretaeus. Simultaneously, ...

• Inventing Female Anatomy in the Early Modern Period: Dissections and Interpretations of the Uterus 

  Gramenzi, Annagiulia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Un drôle de genre chez Hermès et Esculape : quelques remarques d’iconogynie historique dans l’alchimie et l’anatomie 

  Baudry, Hervé (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Les leçons du scalpel. De l’anatomie à la physiologie féminines dans quelques textes d’anatomie au début des temps modernes 

  Vons, Jacqueline (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

  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 ...

• Avant-propos 

  Cazes, Hélène (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-01-29)

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