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 because she is more tied to her passions . Yet she is more perfect than animals who possess even less control over their physical desires . Woman again falls between man and animal on the hierarchy of being . 14 ...
... less perfect than man because she is more tied to her passions . Yet she is more perfect than animals who possess even less control over their physical desires . Woman again falls between man and animal on the hierarchy of being . 14 ...
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... less perfect than man . We see then that even Luther , despite his attempt to deny woman's inferiority , placed woman between man and animal in degree of perfection . His protests to the contrary , Luther viewed woman as less perfect ...
... less perfect than man . We see then that even Luther , despite his attempt to deny woman's inferiority , placed woman between man and animal in degree of perfection . His protests to the contrary , Luther viewed woman as less perfect ...
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... less perfect than man . Christianity portrayed woman as possessing a less developed faculty of reason than man , and as far more in- fluenced by the dictates of her passions and emotions . Theologians often impli- cated woman's role in ...
... less perfect than man . Christianity portrayed woman as possessing a less developed faculty of reason than man , and as far more in- fluenced by the dictates of her passions and emotions . Theologians often impli- cated woman's role in ...
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