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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... seen as enduring and unchanging . The fact that Luna was seen as volatile and Sol as fixed indicates that alchemists saw Sol as more perfect than Luna . This inter- pretation is supported by the properties possessed by Sol and Luna ...
... seen as enduring and unchanging . The fact that Luna was seen as volatile and Sol as fixed indicates that alchemists saw Sol as more perfect than Luna . This inter- pretation is supported by the properties possessed by Sol and Luna ...
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... seen as at a lower stage of perfection than the man of that race . This allowed for some women , namely upper - class , white , European women , to be seen as more highly evolved than some men , such as black , African men , within the ...
... seen as at a lower stage of perfection than the man of that race . This allowed for some women , namely upper - class , white , European women , to be seen as more highly evolved than some men , such as black , African men , within the ...
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... seen as a positive factor , since he put the intuitive faculty at a lower , less civilized state of evolution . The obvious conclusion is that woman is less evolved than man . Herbert Spencer elaborated upon this account of woman's ...
... seen as a positive factor , since he put the intuitive faculty at a lower , less civilized state of evolution . The obvious conclusion is that woman is less evolved than man . Herbert Spencer elaborated upon this account of woman's ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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