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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... seem to show , that after an epidemic or a war the male births are in a greater majority than is usually the case . Dusing also points out that females with small placenta and little menstruation bear more boys , and contends that the ...
... seem to show , that after an epidemic or a war the male births are in a greater majority than is usually the case . Dusing also points out that females with small placenta and little menstruation bear more boys , and contends that the ...
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... seems to me that it is mind alone , and not mind and body in conjunction , that is requisite to a knowledge of the truth in regard to such things . 51 Descartes believed that rationality is difficult to attain , and advocated careful ...
... seems to me that it is mind alone , and not mind and body in conjunction , that is requisite to a knowledge of the truth in regard to such things . 51 Descartes believed that rationality is difficult to attain , and advocated careful ...
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... seems unreasonable to say that man , who does not gestate , bear , or lactate , possesses reproductive capacities superior to those of woman . But this is exactly what we find . Man's procreative superiority is inscribed upon the ...
... seems unreasonable to say that man , who does not gestate , bear , or lactate , possesses reproductive capacities superior to those of woman . But this is exactly what we find . Man's procreative superiority is inscribed upon the ...
Inhalt
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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