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 123
... sperm children , the male seed falls to the earth . The sea is an alternate source of nourishment . For example , when Kronos cut off Ouranos's genitals with Gaia's sickle , he threw them into the sea . " After a time , a " white foam ...
... sperm children , the male seed falls to the earth . The sea is an alternate source of nourishment . For example , when Kronos cut off Ouranos's genitals with Gaia's sickle , he threw them into the sea . " After a time , a " white foam ...
Page 138
... sperm for the generation of the female passes through the left emulgent vein , which is " full of watery blood " that has yet to be cleansed in the kidney . Achillini's anatomical theory was not based simply on authority , for he ...
... sperm for the generation of the female passes through the left emulgent vein , which is " full of watery blood " that has yet to be cleansed in the kidney . Achillini's anatomical theory was not based simply on authority , for he ...
Page 191
... sperm must be activated by interacting with certain secretions of the fe- male reproductive tract . Furthermore , it appears that the sperm does not actively pene- trate the ovum . Rather , the ovum employs microvilli , projections on ...
... sperm must be activated by interacting with certain secretions of the fe- male reproductive tract . Furthermore , it appears that the sperm does not actively pene- trate the ovum . Rather , the ovum employs microvilli , projections on ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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