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• W333445150 abstract "This paperback publication of the original 1993 hardback brings a broadly useful book more easily into the reach of a wide range of scholars, where it will be a welcome addition. It was awarded the 1994 Pfizer Award as the Outstanding Book in the History of Science. It is useful to keep this perspective in mind, for although the book will make a substantial contribution to gender studies across a series of disciplines, it is most accessible though its orientation to the intricate ways learned opinion -- especially, but far from exclusively, scientific opinion -- is formed, transmitted then transformed and adopted, before ultimately affecting the history of gender. The work is immensely learned, with a substantial bibliography of manuscript and printed works. Its strengths lie in the inclusiveness of the sources, the depth of detailed analysis, and above all, the ability to face the huge complexity of the task. But these very impressive strengths make it a book likely to be somewhat daunting to the non-specialist scholar. Cadden sets as her goal the examination of a variety of medical and scientific opinion on the meaning of sex difference in the middle ages, including why such opinion was sought and the uses to which it was put. She faces boldly the many intersecting currents of opinion and the often confusing, sometimes contradictory, ways it is embedded in the general climate of learned opinion. Among the most interesting features of the book is its illustration of the flexibility and pragmatism which govern the application of theory at different levels. Cadden illuminates how individual, familial and communal dimensions shape the desires of both men and women to marry well and satisfyingly, to promote fertility -- especially to produce male children -- and to maintain their own health and that of their partner, while living a life compatible with their moral and religious beliefs. Each of these goals will elicit quite different complexes of learned opinion, though often showing agreement on the desired outcome if not on the assumptions and reasoning behind it. Social and individual aspirations toward virginity and other varieties of sexual abstinence revealed far greater challenges to the harmonization of traditions of learned opinion and to the reconciliation of the differing goals sought through abstinence. The impressive strength of the project is thus matched by the difficulty of keeping one's way among the multiple tangled lines of intersection. The very brief conclusion gives a useful guide to the dominant threads to be followed as the tangle is teased apart and should perhaps be read alongside the introduction. At the same time, the book clearly also seeks to nuance the broad outlines of the story of sex and gender differences as it has recently been told. As a chapter in the ongoing attempt to assess the cultural climate of authoritative opinion on women and gender in the middle ages and early modern period, the book challenges us to accept the benefits and burdens of a frequent lack of clarity on topics of importance. …" @default.
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• W333445150 title "[The Meaning of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science & Culture]" @default.
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