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Bodies on a continuum
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It is possible for other “bodies” to exist along this hierarchical continuum.
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Transformative body shifts in time
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By the end of the 18th century, a major shift took place in the understanding of the Body
The hierarchical One Body shared by men and women, was abandoned and replaced for a Radical dimorphism, a dichotomy of two radically different bodies, each corresponding to a particular gender. THIS HAPPENED AT THE ND OF THE 19TH CENTURY? ask keon dillon this |
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Science as a referee
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These were times, when people looked to science, and not the Church, as the arbiter of social question. Science was to find in nature, not in the cosmos, the answers to social questions.
Body and Morality: Science’s view was that the inherent physical differences between men and women implied differences in the personal, moral, social, and intellectual capacities of women. |
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Body and social status key point
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If significant differences could be found in the bodies of women, then these “natural” differences could explain and justify the differing roles that men and women should play in society.
: Anatomists looked for parts of the body that could shed light on the “women’s question.” Differences in sexual organs became fundamental in this project. But if differences could also be found in the skeleton, then sexual identity would no longer be a matter of sex organs appended to a neutral body, as anatomists thought in the past, but would penetrate every muscle, vein, and organ attached to and molded by the skeleton. |
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Women's bodies as weaker
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physical weakness implied intellectual weakness” “women are incapable of analytical or abstract thought”
The skull smaller: “Women are capable of education, but they are not made for the advanced sciences, philosophy, and certain forms of artistic production, all of which require a universal faculty. Women may have quick wit, taste, and elegance, but they cannot attain the ideal…” |
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The nervous body
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Instead of a fluid body within which different fluids concot to produce life in its many forms, we see the emergence of an electrical body ruled by the brain and the nervous system.
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Ovaries, and not the uterus, are the most significant reproductive organ
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Ovaries, and not the uterus, are the most significant reproductive organ
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