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This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader culture's assumptions about gender. Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophical theories and medical notions about reproduction and sexual impulses and experiences intersected with ideas about the roles of men and women.Cadden, Joan is the author of 'Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages Medicine, Science, and Culture', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521483780 and ISBN 0521483786.
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