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Feminism & The Biological Body (Paperback)
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What is a body? What are our perceptions of our inner bodies? How
are these perceptions influenced? In recent years, thinking about
the body has become highly fashionable. However, the renewed focus,
while certainly welcome, seems to always end at the corporeal
surface. While recent sociological and feminist theory has made
important claims about the process of cultural inscription on the
body, and about the cultural representation of the body, what
actually appears in this new theory seems to be, ironically,
disembodied. If this newly theorized form has interiority, it is
one that is explained predominantly through psychoanalysis. The
physiological processes remain a mystery to be explained, if at
all, only in the esoteric language of biomedicine. 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.
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