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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... alchemical tradition was based upon Aristotelian science , it is reasonable to expect alchemists to have been influenced by the Aristotelian im- age of the female as an inferior stage of development . In order to document this attitude ...
... alchemical tradition was based upon Aristotelian science , it is reasonable to expect alchemists to have been influenced by the Aristotelian im- age of the female as an inferior stage of development . In order to document this attitude ...
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... alchemical processes . " 40 The victory over the female is a central metaphor in alchemical literature . Michael Maier , a seventeenth - century alchemist , wrote a text , Atalanta Fleeing , based on this alchemical metaphor . The ...
... alchemical processes . " 40 The victory over the female is a central metaphor in alchemical literature . Michael Maier , a seventeenth - century alchemist , wrote a text , Atalanta Fleeing , based on this alchemical metaphor . The ...
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... alchemical processes , biology - human generation , and psychic phenomena— spiritual generation . THE METAPHYSICS OF LUNA AND SOL . Since alchemists viewed the final form of their creation as masculine - the red king or the philosophers ...
... alchemical processes , biology - human generation , and psychic phenomena— spiritual generation . THE METAPHYSICS OF LUNA AND SOL . Since alchemists viewed the final form of their creation as masculine - the red king or the philosophers ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
Children of the Gods | 184 |
Copyright | |
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