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The female in Aristotle's biology : reason or rationalization / Robert Mayhew

Mayhew, Robert [Verfasser]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (x, 136 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and indexes

978-0-226-51202-0 ; 0-226-51202-9 ; 0-226-51200-2

CD 2067 FH 33150

 

Aristoteles, v384-v322  Biologie  Weiblichkeit 

While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical oeuvre. Among many claims, Aristotle is said to have declared that females contribute nothing substantial to generation; that they have fewer teeth than males; that they are less spirited than males; and that woman are analogous to eunuchs. In The Female in Aristotle's Biology, Robert Mayhew aims not to defend Aristotle's ideas about females but to defend Aristotle against the common charge that his writings on fema.