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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... blood , although it is white , insisting that its color was the result of heat . A substance is transformed by being concocted , he said , and heat is required for such concoction . On the basis of this , Aristotle concluded that the ...
... blood , although it is white , insisting that its color was the result of heat . A substance is transformed by being concocted , he said , and heat is required for such concoction . On the basis of this , Aristotle concluded that the ...
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... blood onto the desert sand . These drops bred a swarm of venomous serpents . 56 The blood of Medusa produces neither god nor mortal , but a crop of dangerous snakes , for the creative power of female blood is viewed as far inferior to ...
... blood onto the desert sand . These drops bred a swarm of venomous serpents . 56 The blood of Medusa produces neither god nor mortal , but a crop of dangerous snakes , for the creative power of female blood is viewed as far inferior to ...
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... blood from the vena cava , that is , after the kidney sucks at the watery part , also because the branch of the artery is mingled with the right hand vessels and thus carries a more copious spirit . " 34 Woman , generated from unclean blood ...
... blood from the vena cava , that is , after the kidney sucks at the watery part , also because the branch of the artery is mingled with the right hand vessels and thus carries a more copious spirit . " 34 Woman , generated from unclean blood ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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