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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... role also handicaps her . The vast majority of Western philos- ophers , theologians , and scientists writing both before and after Descartes have accepted the Aristotelian view of the natural role of " civilized " woman as that of wife ...
... role also handicaps her . The vast majority of Western philos- ophers , theologians , and scientists writing both before and after Descartes have accepted the Aristotelian view of the natural role of " civilized " woman as that of wife ...
Side 141
... role in the generation of the phi- losophers ' stone , but this role was clearly secondary to that of the male principle . Luna , the female principle , was labeled the " vessel of the sun , " the " universal receptacle , " or the ...
... role in the generation of the phi- losophers ' stone , but this role was clearly secondary to that of the male principle . Luna , the female principle , was labeled the " vessel of the sun , " the " universal receptacle , " or the ...
Side 224
... role differentiation Sex role differentiation , 34 , 36–41 Sexism : in practice of science , ix ; and racism of Darwin's theory of evolution , 38 ; craniology and , 46 ; association with racism , 178n.10 Sexual selection , 36-38 ...
... role differentiation Sex role differentiation , 34 , 36–41 Sexism : in practice of science , ix ; and racism of Darwin's theory of evolution , 38 ; craniology and , 46 ; association with racism , 178n.10 Sexual selection , 36-38 ...
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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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