DIFERENȚE DE GEN ÎN OPERA LUI JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN

DIFERENȚE DE GEN ÎN OPERA LUI JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN

The aim of this paper is to analyse the way in which the Spanish physician Juan Huarte de San Juan discusses about women’s temperaments and intellectual aptitudes. His book, The Examination of Men’s Wits for Sciences, represents one of the most influential medical treatises in the Sixteenth Century....

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Published in:Studii de ştiinţǎ şi culturǎ Vol. XI; no. 3; pp. 171 - 180
Main Author: Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Vasile Goldis University Press 2015
Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Subjects:
Literary Texts
intellectual capacities
Huarte de San Juan
feminism
ingenium
Renaissance medicine
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to analyse the way in which the Spanish physician Juan Huarte de San Juan discusses about women’s temperaments and intellectual aptitudes. His book, The Examination of Men’s Wits for Sciences, represents one of the most influential medical treatises in the Sixteenth Century. Though it is not surprising the fact that Huarte considers women as not being suitable for performing science or art, this being the general conception of the time, the way in which Huarte argues for women’s intellectual inferiority is very original, combining arguments taken from Aristotelian natural philosophy, Galenic medicine, Bible exegesis and his own empirical observations.
ISSN:1841-1401
2067-5135