Pitts-Taylor The Brain's Body

Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7437-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitts-Taylor, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.