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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... offer a more positive image of woman's nature than that of Augustine or Aquinas . His primary purpose in do- ing so , however , was to elevate the institution of marriage . Because of this con- cern , Calvin concentrated on the second ...
... offer a more positive image of woman's nature than that of Augustine or Aquinas . His primary purpose in do- ing so , however , was to elevate the institution of marriage . Because of this con- cern , Calvin concentrated on the second ...
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... offer excellent examples of the way in which selection of the characteristics employed to prove female inferiority ... offered such an alterna- tive , insisting that aspects of the shape of an individual's skull would show her or his ...
... offer excellent examples of the way in which selection of the characteristics employed to prove female inferiority ... offered such an alterna- tive , insisting that aspects of the shape of an individual's skull would show her or his ...
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... offer a conception of reason almost identical to that of Philo , one that would dominate Western philosophical and scientific definitions of rationality for centuries . " In Rules for the Direction of the Mind , Descartes offered a ...
... offer a conception of reason almost identical to that of Philo , one that would dominate Western philosophical and scientific definitions of rationality for centuries . " In Rules for the Direction of the Mind , Descartes offered a ...
Inhalt
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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