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The Weaker Seed. The Sexist Bias of Reproductive Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Nancy Tuana
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Abstract

This history of reproductive theories from Aristotle to the preformationists provides an excellent illustration of the ways in which the gender /science system informs the process of scientific investigation. In this essay I examine the effects of the bias of woman's inferiority upon theories of human reproduction. I argue that the adherence to a belief in the inferiority of the female creative principle biased scientific perception of the nature of woman's role in human generation.

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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminism and Science, Part 2 , Spring 1988 , pp. 35 - 59
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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