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 80
... lack of moral ability . Aristotle reinforced this image of woman , for his biology predicated woman's nature upon her defect in heat . Not only was woman misbegotten in body , according to Aristotle , but her lack of heat generated ...
... lack of moral ability . Aristotle reinforced this image of woman , for his biology predicated woman's nature upon her defect in heat . Not only was woman misbegotten in body , according to Aristotle , but her lack of heat generated ...
Page 169
... lack , and her role in reproduction continue to be seen as the fundamental sources of her " difference . " A brief illustration of my point is provided by a revealing glance at recent em- bryological theory . You will remember that ...
... lack , and her role in reproduction continue to be seen as the fundamental sources of her " difference . " A brief illustration of my point is provided by a revealing glance at recent em- bryological theory . You will remember that ...
Page 170
... lack , this time the lack of exposure to male hormones , which causes the lack of a virile brain . Although this is an account far removed from the Aristotelian and Galenic theories of impure blood and deficiencies in heat , the ...
... lack , this time the lack of exposure to male hormones , which causes the lack of a virile brain . Although this is an account far removed from the Aristotelian and Galenic theories of impure blood and deficiencies in heat , the ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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