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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... evolution were thus not possible . Darwin's theory of evolution contained a modified image of a scale of perfec- tion . In order to incorporate the doctrine of a hierarchy of being into an evolu- tionary framework , two important ...
... evolution were thus not possible . Darwin's theory of evolution contained a modified image of a scale of perfec- tion . In order to incorporate the doctrine of a hierarchy of being into an evolu- tionary framework , two important ...
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... evolved it is . Thus , Spencer concluded that the demands of woman's re- productive system precluded her full individual evolution . Despite the fact that more than twenty centuries and numerous changes in bi- ological theory separate ...
... evolved it is . Thus , Spencer concluded that the demands of woman's re- productive system precluded her full individual evolution . Despite the fact that more than twenty centuries and numerous changes in bi- ological theory separate ...
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... evolution . The obvious conclusion is that woman is less evolved than man . Herbert Spencer elaborated upon this account of woman's mental inferiority in his essay " Psychology of the Sexes . " Supporting Darwin's view of woman as less ...
... evolution . The obvious conclusion is that woman is less evolved than man . Herbert Spencer elaborated upon this account of woman's mental inferiority in his essay " Psychology of the Sexes . " Supporting Darwin's view of woman as less ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of ... Nancy Tuana Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1993 |
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