The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature
Indiana University Press, 1993 - 224 pages
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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A disposition to conserve energy would then be the result of a metabolism
produced under conditions of abundance of ... especially of nutrition , but also
including age and the like , tend to the production of males , the reverse
Hippocrates , for example , believed that both woman and man produced seed .
17 According to his account , there are two types of seed : female and male .
Although woman and man produce both kinds of seed , he held that woman ...
19 Galen claimed that female seed , whether produced by woman or by man , is
inferior to that of male seed . Not only is the semen produced by woman weaker
than that produced by man , the seed out of which a female is conceived is also ...
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Tuana, a professor of the history of ideas, discusses classical through late 19th-century ideas of women, showing how scientific views and religious or philosophical views have influenced and ... Read full review
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