DIFERENȚE DE GEN ÎN OPERA LUI JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE WRITINGS OF JUAN HUARTE DE SAN JUAN

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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