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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... theorists also were influenced by the revision of the Aristotelian position begun by thinkers like Aquinas . While agreeing that the female has less perfection than the male , Aquinas insisted that woman is not defective when viewed in ...
... theorists also were influenced by the revision of the Aristotelian position begun by thinkers like Aquinas . While agreeing that the female has less perfection than the male , Aquinas insisted that woman is not defective when viewed in ...
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... theorists , Paré believed that hysteria was , in part , the result of celibacy . Explaining that hysteria seldom afflicts women who " use copulation familiarly , " he claimed that it was to be found " in those women that have not their ...
... theorists , Paré believed that hysteria was , in part , the result of celibacy . Explaining that hysteria seldom afflicts women who " use copulation familiarly , " he claimed that it was to be found " in those women that have not their ...
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... theorists concerning which of the sex- ual organs were most responsible for woman's susceptibility to hysteria . Some continued , like Hollick , to blame the uterus . An example is Horatio Storer ( 1830–1922 ) , a surgeon at St ...
... theorists concerning which of the sex- ual organs were most responsible for woman's susceptibility to hysteria . Some continued , like Hollick , to blame the uterus . An example is Horatio Storer ( 1830–1922 ) , a surgeon at St ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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