The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 страница 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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... birth to Erebos ( Underworld ) and Night . From the body of Gaia alone came Ouranos ( Heaven ) , as well as the mountains and the sea . Thus the female is the sole force in the initial acts of creation . After giving parthenogenetic birth ...
... birth to Erebos ( Underworld ) and Night . From the body of Gaia alone came Ouranos ( Heaven ) , as well as the mountains and the sea . Thus the female is the sole force in the initial acts of creation . After giving parthenogenetic birth ...
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... birth of his prophesied suc- cessor by swallowing him . But he devised a plan that surpassed Kronos's : Zeus swallowed Metis , the female principle herself , rather than the products of their mating . The female principle and her ...
... birth of his prophesied suc- cessor by swallowing him . But he devised a plan that surpassed Kronos's : Zeus swallowed Metis , the female principle herself , rather than the products of their mating . The female principle and her ...
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... birth through the head rather than the womb . This is a final , important reversal , since the head , associated with reason , is seen as the opposite of the womb , associated with passion.44 " 46 The birth reversals of Zeus were ...
... birth through the head rather than the womb . This is a final , important reversal , since the head , associated with reason , is seen as the opposite of the womb , associated with passion.44 " 46 The birth reversals of Zeus were ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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