Thank you for introducing me to Tina Beattie. An NCR article about her (https://www.ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/theologian-gender-insights-challenge-priesthood-theology) said: 

"She traced Catholic theological dualism on sexuality to the emergence of Aristotelianism in the medieval universities 'in which the copulative relationship between paternal form and maternal matter is the basic building block of creation.'

 “'Inseminating forms acts upon receptive matter in order to bring the world of differentiated bodies into being. This gendered account of the nature of being encompasses all that is, and it has profoundly shaped the western understanding of gender.'

 “'Form is associated with fatherhood, perfection, order, beauty, rationality and therefore with spirit and the divine, while matter is associated with lack, chaos, passivity, materiality and therefore with nature and motherhood.'”

The Aristotle here is from "De generatione animalis," and I have long felt this is crucial.