pt. I. Cosmology. 1. On the color of angels: the sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier. 2. The breath of God: sacred histories of scent --
pt. II. Gender. 3. The scented womb and the seminal eye: embodying gender codes through the senses. 4. Pens and needles: writing, women's work, and feminine sensibilities --
pt. III. Aesthetics. 5. Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes: crossing sensory borders in the arts. 6. A feel for the world: lessons in aesthetics from the blind.

This text looks at the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch.