Motherhood, evolutionary psychology and mirror neurons or

Grammar is politics by other means

Bibliographic Data

ID4847280
AuthorsKarín Lesnik-Oberstein (University of Reading), Karín Lesnik‐oberstein (University of Reading, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue2
Pages171-187
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700115586514
OpenAlexW1904964455
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

Through a close analysis of socio-biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's work on motherhood and 'mirror neurons' it is argued that Hrdy's claims exemplify how research that ostensibly bases itself on neuroscience, including in literary studies 'literary Darwinism', relies after all not on scientific, but on political assumptions, namely on underlying, unquestioned claims about the autonomous, transparent, liberal agent of consumer capitalism. These underpinning assumptions, it is further argued, involve the suppression or overlooking of an alternative, prior tradition of feminist theory, including feminist science criticism

Aesthetics · Critical theory · Criticism · Darwinism · Epistemology · Grammar · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Underpinning · Action Observation and Synchronization · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Philosophy · Psychology

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