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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Page 68
... nineteenth - century craniology , involved the important presupposition that differences in mental abil- ities would be reflected in physiological differences in the brain . If woman's men- tal faculties were indeed different from those ...
... nineteenth - century craniology , involved the important presupposition that differences in mental abil- ities would be reflected in physiological differences in the brain . If woman's men- tal faculties were indeed different from those ...
Page 97
... nineteenth century , hysteria was generally viewed as a phys- ical rather than a psychological ailment . WOMB MADNESS By the nineteenth century , physicians were labeling hysteria a mental condition . Rather than the suffocation and ...
... nineteenth century , hysteria was generally viewed as a phys- ical rather than a psychological ailment . WOMB MADNESS By the nineteenth century , physicians were labeling hysteria a mental condition . Rather than the suffocation and ...
Page 104
... nineteenth - century medical scientists . They saw the arousal of this appetite as the greatest danger to woman's mental well - being ( and perhaps their own greatest fear ) . Their prescription was that woman should not deviate from ...
... nineteenth - century medical scientists . They saw the arousal of this appetite as the greatest danger to woman's mental well - being ( and perhaps their own greatest fear ) . Their prescription was that woman should not deviate from ...
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