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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... speech , more deceptive , and of more retentive memory . " 3 Aristotle based his proof of woman's defect in heat upon a comparison of men- strual fluid and the male ejaculate , which he labeled " semen . " He believed that semen is ...
... speech , more deceptive , and of more retentive memory . " 3 Aristotle based his proof of woman's defect in heat upon a comparison of men- strual fluid and the male ejaculate , which he labeled " semen . " He believed that semen is ...
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... speech and sensibility ; respiration imperceptible and indis- tinct ; a very sudden and incredible death . " " 10 HYSTERICAL FITS Careful attention to anatomy belied the womb's ability to wander freely around the body , and by the end ...
... speech and sensibility ; respiration imperceptible and indis- tinct ; a very sudden and incredible death . " " 10 HYSTERICAL FITS Careful attention to anatomy belied the womb's ability to wander freely around the body , and by the end ...
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... speech , contraction of the legs , and coma . Notice that by the sixteenth century , mental illness was as commonly associated with hysteria as was physical illness . Like earlier theorists , Paré believed that hysteria was , in part ...
... speech , contraction of the legs , and coma . Notice that by the sixteenth century , mental illness was as commonly associated with hysteria as was physical illness . Like earlier theorists , Paré believed that hysteria was , in part ...
Inhalt
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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