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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... cause of many other defects . Woman is " more jealous , more querulous , more apt to scold and to strike . She is , furthermore , more prone to despondency and less hopeful than the man , more void of shame , more false of speech , more ...
... cause of many other defects . Woman is " more jealous , more querulous , more apt to scold and to strike . She is , furthermore , more prone to despondency and less hopeful than the man , more void of shame , more false of speech , more ...
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... cause of numerous ills , including hysterical fits . Soranus of Ephesus , a second - century physician whose Gynecology would in- fluence gynecological tradition well into the seventeenth century , explicitly at- tacked medical theories ...
... cause of numerous ills , including hysterical fits . Soranus of Ephesus , a second - century physician whose Gynecology would in- fluence gynecological tradition well into the seventeenth century , explicitly at- tacked medical theories ...
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... cause suffocation . He also warned that illnesses also could be caused by " superfluous exercises " or " immoderate acci- dents of the soul - exceeding wrath , excessive sadness or worries . " " 18 Popular opinion concerning ...
... cause suffocation . He also warned that illnesses also could be caused by " superfluous exercises " or " immoderate acci- dents of the soul - exceeding wrath , excessive sadness or worries . " " 18 Popular opinion concerning ...
Inhalt
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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