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 70
... death must be part of the calculation . If female brains are , on the average , taken from older individuals than are male brains and one does not adjust for this difference , one will erroneously attribute to men a larger ad- vantage ...
... death must be part of the calculation . If female brains are , on the average , taken from older individuals than are male brains and one does not adjust for this difference , one will erroneously attribute to men a larger ad- vantage ...
Page 119
... Death and Sleep and to the brood of Dreams . " 34 She then gave parthenogenetic birth to Momos , Oizys , the Hesperides , Keres , the Moirai , Klotho , Lachesis , and Atropos , Nemesis , Deception , Passion , Old Age , and Strife . The ...
... Death and Sleep and to the brood of Dreams . " 34 She then gave parthenogenetic birth to Momos , Oizys , the Hesperides , Keres , the Moirai , Klotho , Lachesis , and Atropos , Nemesis , Deception , Passion , Old Age , and Strife . The ...
Page 161
... death " over his wife.35 Nevertheless , his attempt to justify the husband's authority within the family was , in large part , based on a presupposition of man's superiority over woman . This bias is further revealed by a tension in ...
... death " over his wife.35 Nevertheless , his attempt to justify the husband's authority within the family was , in large part , based on a presupposition of man's superiority over woman . This bias is further revealed by a tension in ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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