CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Broken Vessels, Theogony, Simile
Document Summary
Hippocrates: scientific explanation for differences between greeks and foreigners. Nature vs. nurture (always a greek cultural bias) Gynocologcal texts focus on biology anatomical differences between sexes gender always creeps in: ideas of gender roles always effect trying to find phusis underlying gender nomos (always nomos at base) Anatomical is fixed, but sex may always be gender. All writers always seeing from nomos (gender) *sex the bedrock where gender is built or vice versa? right side hotter than left side (men"s sperm vs. women"s sperm) Men hotter than women (hippocrates: hot/cold, wet/dry) Authors similarities: understanding of sex/gender very unchanged. Doctor = man (norm) sense this in the texts. Women as scientific points not really caring about doctor. Men"s semen active and creative, women"s semen needs a man"s. 339: ability and inability, female made to receive semen from man and women"s semen can"t do anything by itself. Women as passive raw material female body as mysterious through men.
