The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press, 1993 - 224 sider 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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... created all forms of animal and bird , but found none of them a fit helper for man . So the Lord God caused a deep ... created at the same moment . Neither has temporal priority , while in the second version , man is created first and ...
... created all forms of animal and bird , but found none of them a fit helper for man . So the Lord God caused a deep ... created at the same moment . Neither has temporal priority , while in the second version , man is created first and ...
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... creation account by empha- sizing the fact that woman was created from a man's rib , while man was created from dust . The basic tenet of this interpretation is the claim that being created out of a human rib means that woman was created ...
... creation account by empha- sizing the fact that woman was created from a man's rib , while man was created from dust . The basic tenet of this interpretation is the claim that being created out of a human rib means that woman was created ...
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... created by calling into being . Each act of creation in Genesis begins with a calling forth . That which is given form through the name is evoked through the word . " And God said , ' Let there be light .... And God said , ' Let the ...
... created by calling into being . Each act of creation in Genesis begins with a calling forth . That which is given form through the name is evoked through the word . " And God said , ' Let there be light .... And God said , ' Let the ...
Indhold
The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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