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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... child . As Darwin put it , woman is " intermediate between the child and the man . " 57 Although perhaps more positive an image than that of being like an animal , the view of woman as child carries with it the view of woman as an ...
... child . As Darwin put it , woman is " intermediate between the child and the man . " 57 Although perhaps more positive an image than that of being like an animal , the view of woman as child carries with it the view of woman as an ...
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... child nearer birth . The Mongolian , the same child newly born . 68 Similarly , demonstrating that adult women had traits that men possessed only when they were children would prove that women were at a more primitive stage of human ...
... child nearer birth . The Mongolian , the same child newly born . 68 Similarly , demonstrating that adult women had traits that men possessed only when they were children would prove that women were at a more primitive stage of human ...
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... child of Wisdom proceeded likewise from three fathers ; For Sol is its first father , Vulcan its second , as is said ... Child of the Philosophers . " 44 The female plays no part in the generation of the philosophical child . HUMAN ...
... child of Wisdom proceeded likewise from three fathers ; For Sol is its first father , Vulcan its second , as is said ... Child of the Philosophers . " 44 The female plays no part in the generation of the philosophical child . HUMAN ...
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