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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... less perfect than man , the premise from which all other beliefs about woman evolve . The creation myths of religion and the hierarchical ordering of existence in the science of biology com- prise the two primary sources in Western ...
... less perfect than man , the premise from which all other beliefs about woman evolve . The creation myths of religion and the hierarchical ordering of existence in the science of biology com- prise the two primary sources in Western ...
Page 19
... less muscular and less compactly jointed . " 2 Woman's heat deficiency results in her brain being smaller and less developed ; in turn , her in- ferior brain size is the cause of many other defects . Woman is " more jealous , more ...
... less muscular and less compactly jointed . " 2 Woman's heat deficiency results in her brain being smaller and less developed ; in turn , her in- ferior brain size is the cause of many other defects . Woman is " more jealous , more ...
Page 111
... less developed , less evolved , less moral , less capable of rational thought , less divine . But what of the pro- creative realm ? Surely this is one function in which we would expect woman to be judged man's equal , if not his ...
... less developed , less evolved , less moral , less capable of rational thought , less divine . But what of the pro- creative realm ? Surely this is one function in which we would expect woman to be judged man's equal , if not his ...
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