 | Ellen Messer-Davidow - 2002 - 428 pagina’s
...heavier, and stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and more plainly-pronounced muscles"; he is also "more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. " ' 5 The Darwinian slide from body to intellect, temperament, and behavior, which arguably was a plausible... | |
 | Jaak Panksepp - 2004 - 736 pagina’s
...since human sexuality is politicized and regulated in most cultures. For instance, he asserted that "man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius" (1874. p. 552). We now know that this viewpoint reflects more cultural misconception than true biological... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 pagina’s
...brightly coloured of the two, as may be seen when both sexes have been equally exposed to the weather. Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison... | |
 | Philip Clayton, Jeffrey Schloss - 2004 - 354 pagina’s
...Feminism Then there is feminism. As many have pointed out, Darwin himself does not wear well here. "Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic...woman, and has a more inventive genius" (Darwin 1871, 2:316). In compensation, woman has "greater tenderness and less selfishness" (326). And so on and so... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2005 - 344 pagina’s
...contained some conventional Victorian sentiments about the innate qualities and proper roles of the sexes. "Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius." In compensation, woman has "greater tenderness and less selfishness."18 Darwin could be describing... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2006 - 286 pagina’s
...himself, have had a vision that was less than complimentary to women. In the Descent of Man, Darwin wrote: "Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic...has a more inventive genius" (Darwin 1871, 2, 316). Balancing this, woman has "greater tenderness and less selfishness" (p. 326). Apparently this is all... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - 2006 - 253 pagina’s
...Women," 1 1; "Female Poaching on Male Preserves," 290. in mental disposition," as well as by noting that "[m]an is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius."16 In the same vein, Herbert Spencer disputed the concept that the sexes were "mentally alike,"... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - 2006 - 253 pagina’s
...Descent that "|w]oman seems to differ from man in mental disposition," as well as by noting that "[mjan is more coura-geous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius." In the same vein, Herbert Spencer disputed the concept that the sexes were "mentally alike," asserting... | |
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Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether or not proportionately to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. 
