num_pages: 328
description: Based on history, feminist theory and cultural studies, this text explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender, the social roles of men and women, purpose of marriage, etc.
language: English
title: The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture
titlecomplete: The 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