Graftings: Sex and Masculinity in early-Modern France. (360G-Wellcome-079655_Z_06_Z)

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Graftings: Sex and Masculinity in Early-Modern France This book-length study focuses on grafting and transplantation in medical and botanical texts of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. I am especially interested in how grafting develops as a practice and as a metaphor, and what is tells us about shifting notions of scientific and cultural subjectivities. In an effort to explore the fluid contours of early-modern plant and human, my project focuses primarily on how discussions of grafting and transplantation serve to link the medical, botanical, and cultural realms as writers attempt to work through shifting notions of "otherness". How do writers understand intersections between the plant world and the human world? What do the descriptions of these intersections reveal about the larger cultural and political realities of the time? Given developing understandings of sexual difference in plants I am especially interested in examining what botanical knowledge and its frequent comparisons to the human body have to tell us about changing notions of gender and sexuality as we move toward the Enlightenment.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 1000
Applicant Surname Tucker
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2006-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2005/06
Grant Programme: Title Miscellaneous: Inactive scheme
Internal ID 079655/Z/06/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Holly Tucker
Partnership Value 1000
Planned Dates: End Date 2006-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2006-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United States
Region International