num_pages: 326
description: This book explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions about reproduction and sexual impulses and experiences intersected with ideas about such matters as the social roles of men and women, the purpose of marriage, and the road to salvation. Grounded in history, feminist theory, and cultural studies, The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages should appeal to a wide range of scholars and students.
language: English
title: Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture
titlecomplete: Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
genres: Gender, Medicine, Medieval, History, Science, Gender Studies, Academic, Gender and Sexuality, Nonfiction, History Of Science
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Pfizer Award
publisher: Cambridge University Press