Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages Medicine, Science and Culture

Name: Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages Medicine, Science and Culture
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ISBN: 9780521483780

ISBN-10: 0521483786

ISBN-13: 9780521483780

Edition: 1995

Authors: Joan Cadden, Colin Jones, Charles Rosenberg

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In describing and explaining the sexes, medicine and science participated in the delineation of what was feminine and what was masculine in the Middle Ages. Hildegard of Bingen and Albertus Magnus, among others, writing about gynecology, the human constitution, fetal development, or the naturalistic dimensions of divine Creation, became increasingly interested in issues surrounding reproduction and sexuality. Did women as well as men produce procreative seed? How did the physiology of the sexes influence their healthy state and their susceptibility to disease? Who derived more pleasure from intercourse, men or women? This book explores how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/31/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Seeds and Pleasures: The Evolution of Learned Opinions


Introduction: The character and extent of medieval dependency



Prelude to medieval theories and debates: Greek authorities and their Latin transformations


The origins of medieval alternatives: Ancient Greek authorities


Early translations, uses, and forms: The transmission of ancient ideas to the Latin West



The emergence of issues and the ordering of opinions


Traditions and transitions


Constantine the African: Texts and readers beyond the monastery


Hildegard of Bingen: Extension and integration


Questions and answers on human generation



Academic questions: Female and male in scholastic medicine and natural philosophy


Old wine and new bottles: translated texts and scholastic methods


Seminal ideas: Female and male generative contributions


Fathers and sons: How the embryo acquires its sex


The rise and division of pleasure


The measure of pleasure



Sex Difference and the Construction of Gender


Introduction: Convergence and diversity



Feminine and masculine types


Gendered meanings


Being feminine and being masculine: Complexion, shape, and disposition


Becoming feminine and becoming masculine: Creation and procreation


Feminine and masculine types: The possibilities and limitations of a binary construct



Sterility: The pursuit of progeny and the failure of reproductive function


The values and functions of fertility


Impediments to fertility


Sterility, fertility, and sex difference



Is sex necessary? The problem of sexual abstinence


The reins of restraint: Varieties of abstinence


The reins on restraint


Conclusion


Works cited


Manuscripts


Printed works


Index