Focusing on the anatomisation of female bodies in northern italy during the period 1300 1550 this book explores the linked themes of generation holiness and female corporeality in connection with the early history of human dissection p 35. Secrets of women gender generation and the origins of human dissection by katharine park heather munro prescott central connecticut state university search for more papers by this author heather munro prescott central connecticut state university. The secrets of women gender generation and the origins of human dissection katharine park history of science studies of women gender and sexuality harvard university my book in progress traces the development of human autopsy and dissection in. Secrets of women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and renaissance italy arguing that female bodies real and imagined played a central role in the history of anatomy during that time the opened corpses of holy women revealed sacred objects while the opened corpses . Secrets of women gender generation and the origins of human dissection by katharine park heather munro prescott central connecticut state university search for more papers by this author heather munro prescott central connecticut state university