Title: Meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages : medicine, science, and culture /
Authors: Cadden, Joan, 1944-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Medicine, Medieval History.; Sex differences Philosophy History.; Human reproduction Philosophy History.; Scholasticism.; Sex Differentiation; Gender Identity; Sexual Behavior history
Abstract: This book explores the way in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader culture's 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. (Back cover).
Contents: Part I Seeds and pleasures : The evolution of learned opinions -- Part II sex difference and the construction of gender