Opinie. Bang voor biofobie? Een apologie van de Cultuurwetenschappen
Auteurs
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.