The feminine symptom : aleatory matter in the Aristotelian cosmos /

The Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring for Aristotle: If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process. This inexplicable but nec...

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Main Author: Bianchi, Emanuela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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