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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... intellectual inferiority . By the nineteenth century three alternative explanations emerged : ( 1 ) natural selection , ( 2 ) arrested development , and ( 3 ) the nature of germ plasm . " The chief distinction in the intellectual powers ...
... intellectual inferiority . By the nineteenth century three alternative explanations emerged : ( 1 ) natural selection , ( 2 ) arrested development , and ( 3 ) the nature of germ plasm . " The chief distinction in the intellectual powers ...
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... intellectual capacities , while Nicolas de Malebranche ( 1638-1715 ) pointed to the constitution of woman's " cerebral fi- ber " to account for her intellectual deficiencies . Finding that woman's cerebral fiber is soft and delicate in ...
... intellectual capacities , while Nicolas de Malebranche ( 1638-1715 ) pointed to the constitution of woman's " cerebral fi- ber " to account for her intellectual deficiencies . Finding that woman's cerebral fiber is soft and delicate in ...
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... intellectual inferiority . " 94 Other measurements were numerous and imaginative , although not always well conceived . One criterion for evaluating such measures was that they be re- jected as erroneous if they gave an advantage to ...
... intellectual inferiority . " 94 Other measurements were numerous and imaginative , although not always well conceived . One criterion for evaluating such measures was that they be re- jected as erroneous if they gave an advantage to ...
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