 | Catherine Gallagher, Thomas Laqueur - History - 1987 - 264 pages
...and the reason for his perfection is his excess heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument. . . . The woman is less perfect than the man in respect...defect in heat emerge and project on the outside. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, trans. Margaret May, vol. 2 (Ithaca, NY, 1968), 628-30.... | |
 | Londa Schiebinger - History - 1991 - 372 pages
...and the reason for his perfection is his excess heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument . . . the woman is less perfect than the man in respect...because of the defect in heat emerge and project on the outside.6 As proof of the fact that women were men manque, Galen, Pliny, and others recounted stories... | |
 | Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant - History - 1992 - 426 pages
...left there imperfect and remain like the eyes of other animals when these are still in the uterus ... generative parts. For the parts were formed within...still a foetus, but could not because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this, though making the animal itself that was being... | |
 | Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough - Psychology - 1993 - 404 pages
...certainly not so imperfect as they are in those animals that do not have any trace of them at all. so tixi the woman is less perfect than the man in respect...parts were formed within her when she was still a fetus, but could not because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this,... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - Electronic books - 1995 - 346 pages
...certainly not as imperfect as they are in those animals that do not have any trace of them at all, so too the woman is less perfect than the man in respect...still a foetus, but could not because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this, though making the animal itself that was being... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - Electronic books - 1995 - 346 pages
...certainly not as imperfect as they are in those animals that do not have any trace of them at all, so too the woman is less perfect than the man in respect...she was still a foetus, but could not because of the 47 defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this, though making the animal itself... | |
 | C. Jill O'Bryan - 235 pages
...(AD 129—199) determined that heat was also the property that shaped the male and female genitalia: she was still a foetus, but could not because of the defect of heat emerge and project on the outside.12 Thus, woman lacked the heat to externalize her genitals... | |
 | David Brodsky - Religion - 2006 - 588 pages
...status and perfection. On the contrary, for Galen, this is the very example of woman's inferiority, for the woman is less perfect than the man in respect...still a foetus, but could not because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this though making the animal itself that was being... | |
 | Adele F. Seeff, Joan Hartman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 412 pages
...physiological base for medical knowledge and practice in the early modern period, Galen asserts that "the woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts," maintaining that the uterus is an inverted (and imperfect) scrotum.11 Hollowed out, the space of the... | |
 | Ada Cohen, Jeremy B. Rutter - Architecture - 2007 - 421 pages
...is more perfect than the woman, and the reason for his perfection is his excess of heat ... so too the woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts. (Gal. UP 14.6-2.299)11 Such contrasts of hot and cold, or wet and dry, are prevalent throughout Classical... | |
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... the woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts. For the parts were formed within her when she was still a foetus, but could not because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside... 