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 11
... woman's metaphysical inferiority . Like Philo , both Augustine and Aquinas referred primarily to the second cre- ation story . Although they agreed with Philo's conclusions , neither discussed the material of woman's creation . Instead ...
... woman's metaphysical inferiority . Like Philo , both Augustine and Aquinas referred primarily to the second cre- ation story . Although they agreed with Philo's conclusions , neither discussed the material of woman's creation . Instead ...
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... woman as between man and animal in a thinly veiled disguise . THE MARKS OF INFERIORITY : EDWARD DRINKER COPE . The use of recapitulation theory to account for woman's inferiority is well il- lustrated in the work of Edward Drinker Cope ...
... woman as between man and animal in a thinly veiled disguise . THE MARKS OF INFERIORITY : EDWARD DRINKER COPE . The use of recapitulation theory to account for woman's inferiority is well il- lustrated in the work of Edward Drinker Cope ...
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... woman was indeed less perfect than man , this inferiority would be mapped onto her body . Although scientists , as we have seen with Cope , identi- fied numerous physiological differences between the sexes - skeletal differences ...
... woman was indeed less perfect than man , this inferiority would be mapped onto her body . Although scientists , as we have seen with Cope , identi- fied numerous physiological differences between the sexes - skeletal differences ...
Contents
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Copyright | |
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