The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 pages This book looks at five major beliefs about woman's nature generally accepted by Western philosophers, theologians, and scientists from the classical period to the nineteenth century. These are that: woman is less perfect than man, woman possesses inferior rational capacities, woman has a defective moral sense, man is the primary creative force, and that woman is in need of control. |
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... Theogony depicts woman's nature as inferior to that of man . Her existence is neither necessary nor desirable , but was merely the god's response to being de- ceived . Woman has the mind , not of a god or of a man , but of an inferior ...
... Theogony depicts woman's nature as inferior to that of man . Her existence is neither necessary nor desirable , but was merely the god's response to being de- ceived . Woman has the mind , not of a god or of a man , but of an inferior ...
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... Theogony myth in a number of interesting respects . Its initial creation , the creation of the gods , is like that of the Theogony in that it involves a birth metaphor . Apsu is referred to as the " begetter " of the gods ; Tiamat's ...
... Theogony myth in a number of interesting respects . Its initial creation , the creation of the gods , is like that of the Theogony in that it involves a birth metaphor . Apsu is referred to as the " begetter " of the gods ; Tiamat's ...
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... Theogony , everything that exists is the offspring of the gods ; each thing is engendered from the body of a god . The gods are thus likely to be perceived as being a part of all that is ; they are in the world . The god of Genesis is ...
... Theogony , everything that exists is the offspring of the gods ; each thing is engendered from the body of a god . The gods are thus likely to be perceived as being a part of all that is ; they are in the world . The god of Genesis is ...
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