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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... original or proper form of humankind is male . This tenet was a given fact for Aristotle , not a thesis subject to question . Yet he found it necessary to develop a detailed and seemingly rational scientific justification for this ...
... original or proper form of humankind is male . This tenet was a given fact for Aristotle , not a thesis subject to question . Yet he found it necessary to develop a detailed and seemingly rational scientific justification for this ...
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... original doctrine of the scale of nature was the belief in continuity - that there would be no gaps in the ladder of perfection . " The whole chasm in Nature , from a Plant to a Man , is filled up with diverse Kinds of Creatures ...
... original doctrine of the scale of nature was the belief in continuity - that there would be no gaps in the ladder of perfection . " The whole chasm in Nature , from a Plant to a Man , is filled up with diverse Kinds of Creatures ...
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... original human in Genesis 2.7 was the specific verb for pottery , while the verb used in 2.22 refers specifically to architecture and the construction of buildings . On the basis of this , she argues that the creation of female and male ...
... original human in Genesis 2.7 was the specific verb for pottery , while the verb used in 2.22 refers specifically to architecture and the construction of buildings . On the basis of this , she argues that the creation of female and male ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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