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The Brain's Body - Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (Hardcover)
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The Brain's Body - Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (Hardcover)
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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.
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