Re-considering the turn to biology in feminist theory

Bibliographic Data

ID4366991
AuthorsShuang Frost (0000-0001-8744-2765, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, corresponding author), Samantha Frost
Year2014
Volume15
Issue3
Pages307-326
Publication date2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700114545323
OpenAlexW1998232736
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited37

This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and political well-being. The figuration of ourselves as specifically biocultural creatures will enable feminists to gain a stronger theoretical and analytic purchase on the ongoing mutual shaping of the biological and social dimensions of existence. This, in turn, will enable feminists to creatively re-imagine the fields and fora of feminist politics

Biology · Creatures · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society