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 22
... hear a clear echo of Aristotelian the- ory in Aquinas's view of the biological cause of woman's imperfection . “ As re- gards the individual nature , woman is defective and misbegotten , for the active force in the male seed tends to ...
... hear a clear echo of Aristotelian the- ory in Aquinas's view of the biological cause of woman's imperfection . “ As re- gards the individual nature , woman is defective and misbegotten , for the active force in the male seed tends to ...
Page 156
... hear as little as possible and ask the fewest possible questions . " 10 Woman , like the passions , must be kept in abeyance until she has a ruling faculty , a husband , who can serve as the rational element that will teach her proper ...
... hear as little as possible and ask the fewest possible questions . " 10 Woman , like the passions , must be kept in abeyance until she has a ruling faculty , a husband , who can serve as the rational element that will teach her proper ...
Page 162
... of the family , women are curiously absent ; we hear only of children and their fathers : " The most ancient of all societies , and the only natural one , 1948 is that of the family . Yet children remain bound 162 THE BEAUTIFUL EVIL.
... of the family , women are curiously absent ; we hear only of children and their fathers : " The most ancient of all societies , and the only natural one , 1948 is that of the family . Yet children remain bound 162 THE BEAUTIFUL EVIL.
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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