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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Side 113
... metaphor of the craftsper- son who creates from nothing , it would be helpful to contrast this image with other creation metaphors . There are three basic metaphors , the first being the Genesis image of creation ex nihilo . The second ...
... metaphor of the craftsper- son who creates from nothing , it would be helpful to contrast this image with other creation metaphors . There are three basic metaphors , the first being the Genesis image of creation ex nihilo . The second ...
Side 122
... metaphor of creation is wedded to a birth metaphor ! Some of the implications of Athena's birth reversal are clearly illustrated by Aeschylus . In his Oresteia , Aeschylus told how Agamemnon , on return from his victory in the Trojan ...
... metaphor of creation is wedded to a birth metaphor ! Some of the implications of Athena's birth reversal are clearly illustrated by Aeschylus . In his Oresteia , Aeschylus told how Agamemnon , on return from his victory in the Trojan ...
Side 132
... metaphor Aristotle used to explain this process was very similar to the craftsperson metaphor of Genesis , for he compared the process of conception to that of a carpenter carving out a bed . In conception , the woman provides the raw ...
... metaphor Aristotle used to explain this process was very similar to the craftsperson metaphor of Genesis , for he compared the process of conception to that of a carpenter carving out a bed . In conception , the woman provides the raw ...
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The Weaker Vessel | 51 |
Creativitys Soil | 109 |
The Beautiful Evil | 153 |
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