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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... heavens . She is less perfect than man because she is more tied to her passions . Yet she is more perfect than ... heavens and the earth . " In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens , when no plant of the field was yet ...
... heavens . She is less perfect than man because she is more tied to her passions . Yet she is more perfect than ... heavens and the earth . " In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens , when no plant of the field was yet ...
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... Heaven . And there was evening and there was morning , a second day . And God said , " Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place , and let the dry land appear . " And it was so . God called the dry land Earth ...
... Heaven . And there was evening and there was morning , a second day . And God said , " Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place , and let the dry land appear . " And it was so . God called the dry land Earth ...
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... heaven had not been named , " from which the title Enuma Elis ( When On High ) , originates . 15 When on high— when ... heavens ] ( and ) established the earth . 17 After creating the universe , Marduk's heart prompted him " to fashion ...
... heaven had not been named , " from which the title Enuma Elis ( When On High ) , originates . 15 When on high— when ... heavens ] ( and ) established the earth . 17 After creating the universe , Marduk's heart prompted him " to fashion ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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