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Aquinas on Women

Writings of Thomas Aquinas about women were the basis of church and philosophical attitudes towards women for centuries.
  1. Medieval Christianity
  2. Medieval: Men About Women

Aquinas: All Infants Male?
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica I, 99, 2: are women "misbegotten males" or are they equal in nature?

Aquinas: Grace of Words
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica II-II, 177, 2: why women are allowed to teach privately but not publicly.

Aquinas: Women, Public Penance
Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica Supplement, 28, 3: on the equal treatment of men and women regarding assigning public penance.

Aquinas: Women, Sin, Adornment
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II, 169, 2, on the effect of women's adornment on men and therefore on morality.

Aquinas on Women
Article by John Wijngaards for the National Catholic Reporter, 2000, on Aquinas' ideas, part of the current controversy over women's "proper" role in the Roman Catholic Church.

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