As a trained biologist, Lynda Birke was frustrated by the gap between feminist cultural analysis and her own scientific background. In this book, she seeks to bridge this gap using ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed. Birke rejects the assumption that bodily function is somehow fixed and unchanging, claiming that biology offers more than just a deterministic narrative of how nature works. Feminism and the Biological Body brings natural science and feminist theory together and suggests that we need a new politics that includes, rather than denies, our flesh.…mehr
As a trained biologist, Lynda Birke was frustrated by the gap between feminist cultural analysis and her own scientific background. In this book, she seeks to bridge this gap using ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed. Birke rejects the assumption that bodily function is somehow fixed and unchanging, claiming that biology offers more than just a deterministic narrative of how nature works. Feminism and the Biological Body brings natural science and feminist theory together and suggests that we need a new politics that includes, rather than denies, our flesh.
LYNDA BIRKE is a feminist biologist who has written extensively on the connections between feminism and science. She is the co-founder of two feminist groups and author of several bookps including Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge; Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew; Rethinking Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (co-edited with Ruth Hubbard); and, Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge (with Jean Barr).
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Ironing out the Differences? Feminism and Biology 2 Black Boxes and Tedious Universals: Feminism and the (Biological) Body 3 Short Circuits: Reading the Inner Body 4 Spaces and Solidities: Reoresenting Inner Processes 5 Traces of Control: the Body as Systems 6 The Heart - a Broken Metaphor? 7 The Body Becoming: Change and Transformation 8 Connections: the Body's World notes references index
Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Ironing out the Differences? Feminism and Biology 2 Black Boxes and Tedious Universals: Feminism and the (Biological) Body 3 Short Circuits: Reading the Inner Body 4 Spaces and Solidities: Reoresenting Inner Processes 5 Traces of Control: the Body as Systems 6 The Heart - a Broken Metaphor? 7 The Body Becoming: Change and Transformation 8 Connections: the Body's World notes references index
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