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dc.contributor.authorBleie, Tone
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-20T12:24:41Z
dc.date.available2020-04-20T12:24:41Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-04
dc.description.abstractChallenging the influential view that the chapter on biology in the first volume of <i>The Second Sex</i> is exposing scientific myths in severe prose, in the view of this paper, the chapter is as much about scientific facts as it is an intriguingly open-ended dialogue between phenomenology and science. Beauvoir’s consuming epistemological and scientific preoccupation with the category of biology is analysed in a bid to advance a new, naturalist–feminist conception of Beauvoir’s theory of natural history. The analysis unravels the theoretical edifice, with its tensions between Beauvoir’s selective but brilliant appropriation of recent discoveries in evolutionary biology and genetics and certain deliberate rejections and omissions of Darwinian evolutionary thinking. Contrary to Beauvoir’s intentions, she ends up conflating the term biology with, in particular, reproductive physiology, and perpetuating the ill-fated division between body and psyche. In contributing to a reformulation of an empirically grounded approach to the embodied mind and situated body, this paper debates some promising insights from contemporary neuroscience and primatology. These insights are critical to theory development, based on a non-anthropocentric stance and non-dualistic understanding of the mind–brain continuum and the body as a situation.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research on 04 Feb 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/<a href=https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2018.1550110>https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2018.1550110</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBleie T. The Body as Situation: A Darwinian Reading of The Second Sex. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 2019;27(1):54-71en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1692440
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08038740.2018.1550110
dc.identifier.issn0803-8740
dc.identifier.issn1502-394X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18062
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2019 The Nordic Association for Women’s Studies and Gender Researchen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleThe Body as Situation: A Darwinian Reading of The Second Sexen_US
dc.type.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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