Amy Eisen Cislo’s scholarship focuses on embodiment and the social history of medicine.
Cislo’s publications range from research on Early Modern Alchemy in the German-speaking world to contemporary Trans* issues in the United States. Her other research and teaching interest is in Girls Studies, with a focus on LGBTQI youth.
Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
Introduction to Women's Texts
Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science
Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body
Transgender Studies
Service Learning: Feminist and Queer Youth Studies
Service Learning: Girls' Studies
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of the male body.
