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The Brain's Body - Victoria Pitts-Taylor

The Brain's Body

Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6126-8 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor applies feminist and critical theory to recent developments in neuroscience and new materialist social thought to demonstrate how the brain interacts with and is impacted by power, social structures, and inequality.
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, as well as how those social structures shape neuroscientific knowledge. Pointing out that some brain scientists have not fully abandoned reductionist or determinist explanations of neurobiology, Pitts-Taylor moves beyond debates over nature and nurture to address the politics of plastic, biosocial brains. She highlights the potential of research into poverty's effects on the brain to reinforce certain notions of poor subjects and to justify particular forms of governance, while her queer critique of kinship research demonstrates the limitations of hypotheses based on heteronormative assumptions. In her exploration of the embodied mind and the "embrained" body, Pitts-Taylor highlights the inextricability of nature and culture and shows why using feminist and queer thought is essential to understanding the biosociality of the brain.  

Victoria Pitts-Taylor is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University and the author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture. 

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: The Social Brain and Corporeal Politics  1

1. The Phenomenon of Brain Plasticity  17

2. What Difference Does the Body Make?  43

3. I Feel Your Pain  67

4. Neurobiology and the Queerness of Kinship  95

Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Embodiment  119

Notes  129

References  153

Index  177

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.3.2016
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-6126-4 / 0822361264
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-6126-8 / 9780822361268
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