TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayhew,Robert
TI  - The female in Aristotle's biology: reason or rationalization 
SN  - 9780226512020 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HQ1233 .M359 2004eb
U1  - 305.4 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Aristotle.
KW  - Aristote.
KW  - AristÓteles,
KW  - Aristoteles.
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Women
KW  - Biology
KW  - History
KW  - Female
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Misogynie
KW  - Femmes
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Natuurfilosofie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Griekse oudheid
KW  - Vrouwelijk geslacht (biologie)
KW  - Feminismo (discriminação)
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Mulheres (filosofia)
KW  - Biologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Weiblichkeit
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-124) and indexes; Aristotle and "ideology" -- Entomology -- Embryology -- Eunuchs and women -- Anatomy -- The softer and less spirited sex -- Aristotle on females : an assessment of the biology
N2  - 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
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