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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... talk of " higher " and " lower " species in ways that involved clear value judgments con- cerning their perfection . Another carry - over from the original doctrine of the scale of nature was the belief in continuity - that there would ...
... talk of " higher " and " lower " species in ways that involved clear value judgments con- cerning their perfection . Another carry - over from the original doctrine of the scale of nature was the belief in continuity - that there would ...
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... talk of woman as falling between man and child . As Darwin put it , woman is " intermediate between the child and the man . " 57 Although perhaps more positive an image than that of being like an animal , the view of woman as child ...
... talk of woman as falling between man and child . As Darwin put it , woman is " intermediate between the child and the man . " 57 Although perhaps more positive an image than that of being like an animal , the view of woman as child ...
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... talk about Plato's view of woman without also discussing his views concerning classes of individuals . 10 Plato did not deviate from the cosmology of the Timaeus , in which the souls of women are inferior ; he complicated it with his ...
... talk about Plato's view of woman without also discussing his views concerning classes of individuals . 10 Plato did not deviate from the cosmology of the Timaeus , in which the souls of women are inferior ; he complicated it with his ...
Inhalt
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
Urheberrecht | |
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