The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 ページ 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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... come to marriageable years and have not yet husbands for in them abounds the seed which nature wished to draw out by means of the male . " 17 A similar view was offered in the early fifteenth century by Anthonius Guain- erius , a ...
... come to marriageable years and have not yet husbands for in them abounds the seed which nature wished to draw out by means of the male . " 17 A similar view was offered in the early fifteenth century by Anthonius Guain- erius , a ...
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... come upon you , and the power of the Most High will overshadow you ; / therefore the child to be born will be called ... comes to be seen as fertile earth that provides nourishment for the divine seed of Christ . This metaphor was used ...
... come upon you , and the power of the Most High will overshadow you ; / therefore the child to be born will be called ... comes to be seen as fertile earth that provides nourishment for the divine seed of Christ . This metaphor was used ...
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... comes into being the offspring previously ex- isting in the generator . " " 11 Careful attention to Aristotle's theory reveals that the offspring should not be thought of as existing preformed in the body of the male . Rather , the male ...
... comes into being the offspring previously ex- isting in the generator . " " 11 Careful attention to Aristotle's theory reveals that the offspring should not be thought of as existing preformed in the body of the male . Rather , the male ...
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