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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... man . Since God formed man from dust , man's body is at a higher degree of development than dust and is thus a more perfect material . If one postulates that the degree of perfection of a being corresponds to the degree of perfection of ...
... man . Since God formed man from dust , man's body is at a higher degree of development than dust and is thus a more perfect material . If one postulates that the degree of perfection of a being corresponds to the degree of perfection of ...
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... man ; to find a helper fit for man , God had to create a being equal to man in all ways . To do so , God formed woman out of man's body so that she would be " bone of his bone , flesh of his flesh , " that is , she would possess the ...
... man ; to find a helper fit for man , God had to create a being equal to man in all ways . To do so , God formed woman out of man's body so that she would be " bone of his bone , flesh of his flesh , " that is , she would possess the ...
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... man's intellectual superiority , and his claim extended to race and evolutionary scale . Although so - called " primitive " man's rational capacities were seen as far inferior to those of " civilized " man , they were nevertheless ...
... man's intellectual superiority , and his claim extended to race and evolutionary scale . Although so - called " primitive " man's rational capacities were seen as far inferior to those of " civilized " man , they were nevertheless ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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