Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science

Oxford University Press UK (1996)
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This study presents scientific theories about the female body in Greece of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. It demonstrates the influence of cultural preconceptions on such theories, and of scientific theories on cultural attitudes.

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