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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... Aristotle's theory : such individuals are least able to provide the heat necessary for concoction of a fetus into its " proper form . " However , a simple empirical study recording the gender of offspring born to younger and older women ...
... Aristotle's theory : such individuals are least able to provide the heat necessary for concoction of a fetus into its " proper form . " However , a simple empirical study recording the gender of offspring born to younger and older women ...
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... Aristotle argued that because of man's greater natural heat , the male fetus " moves about more than the female , and on account of moving is more liable to injury . " " 15 We see the power of Aristotle's biases once again as he ...
... Aristotle argued that because of man's greater natural heat , the male fetus " moves about more than the female , and on account of moving is more liable to injury . " " 15 We see the power of Aristotle's biases once again as he ...
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... ARISTOTLE . As the cosmology of Plato became the science of Aristotle , a biological explana- tion was offered for the imperfection of woman's soul . For Aristotle , soul is " bet- ter than body . " It has a higher degree of being and ...
... ARISTOTLE . As the cosmology of Plato became the science of Aristotle , a biological explana- tion was offered for the imperfection of woman's soul . For Aristotle , soul is " bet- ter than body . " It has a higher degree of being and ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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