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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... offered procedures for decomposing and recomposing sub- stances . But unlike chemistry , it offered procedures for transforming substances into higher states of perfection and for transmuting one metal into another . The primary goal of ...
... offered procedures for decomposing and recomposing sub- stances . But unlike chemistry , it offered procedures for transforming substances into higher states of perfection and for transmuting one metal into another . The primary goal of ...
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... offered substantial evidence of the impediments of woman's body , and ar- gued that the quest for a life of the mind ... offering to each the type of warmth and protection appropriate to her or his personality . This perception of ...
... offered substantial evidence of the impediments of woman's body , and ar- gued that the quest for a life of the mind ... offering to each the type of warmth and protection appropriate to her or his personality . This perception of ...
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... offered a scriptural justification for a sexual division of labor , explaining that the passage in Genesis in which woman is compared to a building ( Genesis 2:22 ) should be interpreted to mean that a man without a woman is " homeless ...
... offered a scriptural justification for a sexual division of labor , explaining that the passage in Genesis in which woman is compared to a building ( Genesis 2:22 ) should be interpreted to mean that a man without a woman is " homeless ...
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