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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wilson, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1964- Psychosomatic. Durham : Duke University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)1240253726 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth A Wilson |
ISBN: | 0822333562 9780822333562 0822333651 9780822333654 |
OCLC Number: | 54425403 |
Description: | x, 125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: somatic compliance -- Freud, prozac, and melancholic neurology -- The brain in the gut -- Hypothalamic preference -- Trembling, blushing -- Emotional lizards. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth A. Wilson. |
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"It is quite a while since we have heard a voice as refreshing as that of Elizabeth A. Wilson. With boldness, wit, and extraordinary inventiveness, she shows us just how delimiting have been prevailing tendencies in science studies and feminist theory to marginalize, if not outright repudiate, the material, biological dimensions of human psychology. At the same time, by demonstrating the power of reading biological accounts with the eye of a critical theorist, she reveals the limitations operating within the life sciences. Psychosomatic teaches all of us how to do better: how to read neuroscience for the creative lessons it can offer the human sciences and how to employ the insights of the human sciences to open these same texts to dramatically new understandings."-Evelyn Fox Keller, author of Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines "Wilson's writing is eloquent, considered and thought provoking. . . . In one of her articles, Wilson urged her readers to buy a copy of The Origin of Species as an important feminist text. I certainly endorse this suggestion, but I add my own: buy a copy of Psychosomatic, as it may turn out to be one of the most inspiring feminist works you will read." -- Myra J. Hird * Feminist Theory * Read more...


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