Gendered Touch offers a panoply of case studies that explore gendered practices, representations of gendered bodies, and how these contributed to early modern knowledge-making. Together the essays probe the fraught relationship between text/appropriation and activity/performance. The volume follows in three broad traditions: US approaches to gender as a category of analysis originating in the mid-1980s, a thread of inquiry nurtured in Europe centered on women with roots in the 1970s, and works that have broadened the range of actors considered participants in early modern knowledge-making. The editors characterize the collection as an homage to the work of Marta Cavazza and its insistence on histories of science that feature both women and men.