The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages

Joan (Kenyon College, Ohio) Cadden

Cambridge University Press, 1995

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This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader culture's assumptions about gender. Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions about reproduction and sexual impulses and experiences intersected with ideas about the roles of men and women.

ISBN-13
9780521483780
ISBN-10
0521483786
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
Publication date
1995-03-31
Pages
328
Dimensions
151x227x26
Weight
490