CLA232H1 Lecture : Monday March 5th.docx
Document Summary
Trying to find a fusis that underlines gender. That fusis is always influenced by nomos- always influenced by nomos. When they are talking about sex they always see it in the eyes of nomos or gender. When we try to understand human body it comes from gender. Right side of the body is hotter than the right side. Women are colder meaning they are less perfect than men. Galen is a greek author writing in second century ce. Women are reproductive machines and when something breaks that"s when medicine kicks in. Women are patients and all the doctors are men is the norm. Male self as observer and the female patient as the other. The self is the observer and the other is the object of observation. Both male and women have semen but men semen is active and creative and female is matter- it needs male to activate it.
