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Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or ‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist theorists, scientists and scholars, apply concepts in contemporary materialist feminism to examine an array of topics in science, biotechnology, biopolitics, and bioethics. These include neuralplasticity and the brain-machine interface; the use of biometrical identification technologies for transnational border control; epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of the health effects of social stigma; ADHD and neuropharmacology; and randomized controlled trials of HIV drugs.A unique and interdisciplinary collection, Mattering presents in grounded, concrete terms the need for rethinking disciplinary boundaries and research methodologies in light of the shifts in feminist theorizing and transformations in the sciences.
Feminism and science. --- Feminist theory. --- Human body. --- Materialism. --- Wetenschap --- Cultuurfilosofie. Cultuurpsychologie --- Sociologie van het gezin. Sociologie van de seksualiteit --- Menselijke fysiologie --- Science --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Science and feminism --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Mind and body --- Body --- Nature-nurture-debate --- Theory --- Book
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Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide.
Human body. --- Feminist theory. --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Etnicitet. --- Feminismus. --- Feministisk teori --- Feministisk teori. --- Kropp. --- Körper. --- Naturkatastrofer --- Utvecklingslära --- Filosofi --- Beteende --- Könsolikheter. --- Feminism. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Materialism. --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Feminist Ethics --- Ethics, Feminist --- Women's Rights --- Nature --- Body --- Theory --- Biotechnology --- Book
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