Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intersectionality, Hela, Henrietta Lacks
4 Oct 2018
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W9l the female body in religion, science and. Women"s nature has been discussed for about as long as we have records and is usually assumed to be deficient. Aristotle: wherefore women are more compassionate and more readily made to weep, more jealous and querulous, more fond of railing, and more contentious. The female also is more subject to depression of spirits and despair than the male. (the history of animals, book ix) He also argued that women have fewer teeth than men; that a female is an incomplete male or, as it were, a deformed, mutilated man. Aristotle is important, because he was taken up by other philosophers and scientists, such as galen. Galen believed that men"s power came from the fact that men were warmer that meant that his testicles were necessarily stronger. Women provided the material but men were what gave life.
