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Opinie. Bang voor biofobie? Een apologie van de Cultuurwetenschappen

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  • Kaat Wils

Samenvatting

Recently, feminist scholars like Elisabeth Wilson and Joan Wallach Scott have called for a thorough exploration of the possible contributions of biological explanations to feminism. Instead of stressing the cultural construction of the female body through science, feminists themselves should – according to this critique – apply rigorous scientific methods to that body. This will, according to some, enable the exposure of evolutionary biology as ‘bad’ science. In this contribution, Kaat Wils shows the weaknesses of these ‘naturalist’ positions and suggests that a well-informed culturalist approach does help to make science – and evolutionary psychology in particular – aware of its own situated character. Doing so, it serves both the case of science and of feminism.

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2007-11-22

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