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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Page 121
... principle and her offspring could no longer pose a threat to the male principle . By enveloping the principle within himself , Zeus assimilated her power and assured his own supremacy . Metis , lodged in Zeus's belly , advised him on ...
... principle and her offspring could no longer pose a threat to the male principle . By enveloping the principle within himself , Zeus assimilated her power and assured his own supremacy . Metis , lodged in Zeus's belly , advised him on ...
Page 128
... principle is not pri- mordial , but is dependent upon the Perfect One , the male creative principle that is eternal . She issues from the thought or the mind of the Father , and like Metis in the belly of Zeus , she gives counsel to the ...
... principle is not pri- mordial , but is dependent upon the Perfect One , the male creative principle that is eternal . She issues from the thought or the mind of the Father , and like Metis in the belly of Zeus , she gives counsel to the ...
Page 141
... male produced seed . Alchemists depicted the female role in reproduction as that of nurturing and providing ... principle . The masculine creative principle in the metaphysics of alchemy was the sun or Sol ; the female creative principle ...
... male produced seed . Alchemists depicted the female role in reproduction as that of nurturing and providing ... principle . The masculine creative principle in the metaphysics of alchemy was the sun or Sol ; the female creative principle ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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