The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 Seiten 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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... his origins . This met- aphor of the creator as potter and humans as product is repeated in Romans , when Paul employs the same image to admonish his audience : " But who are you , a man , to answer back to God ? Will 112 CREATIVITY'S SOIL.
... his origins . This met- aphor of the creator as potter and humans as product is repeated in Romans , when Paul employs the same image to admonish his audience : " But who are you , a man , to answer back to God ? Will 112 CREATIVITY'S SOIL.
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... Audiences : Notes Towards a Feminist Perspective on the Kan- tian Sublime . " The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 , 4 ( 1990 ) : 305–315 . Gratian . Apostolic Constitution . In The Ante - Nicene Fathers , vol . 7. Eds . A ...
... Audiences : Notes Towards a Feminist Perspective on the Kan- tian Sublime . " The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 , 4 ( 1990 ) : 305–315 . Gratian . Apostolic Constitution . In The Ante - Nicene Fathers , vol . 7. Eds . A ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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