The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and CultureThis book explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions about reproduction and sexual impulses and experiences intersected with ideas about such matters as the social roles of men and women, the purpose of marriage, and the road to salvation. Grounded in history, feminist theory, and cultural studies, The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages should appeal to a wide range of scholars and students. |
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Contents
THE EVOLUTION | 11 |
The transmission of ancient | 39 |
The emergence of issues and the ordering of opinions | 54 |
Extension and integration | 70 |
Questions and answers on human generation | 88 |
Female and male in scholastic | 105 |
GENDER | 167 |
39 | 180 |
105 | 199 |
130 | 205 |
The pursuit of progeny and the failure | 228 |
Is sex necessary? The problem of sexual abstinence | 259 |
Conclusion | 279 |
| 286 | |
| 305 | |
70 | 186 |
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Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture Joan Cadden No preview available - 1993 |
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| Title | The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Cambridge history of medicine, ISSN 1358-9849 |
| Author | Joan Cadden |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521483786, 9780521483780 |
| Length | 310 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / History Social Science / Gender Studies |
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