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Author Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, author.

Title The brain's body : neuroscience and corporeal politics / Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 181 pages)
Contents The phenomenon of brain plasticity -- What difference does the body make? -- I feel your pain -- Neurobiology and the queerness of kinship -- Conclusion: The multiplicity of embodiment
Summary In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor applies feminist and critical theory to recent developments in neuroscience and new materialist social thought to demonstrate how the brain interacts with and is impacted by power, social structures, and inequality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 4, 2017)
Subject Neurosciences -- Social aspects
Cognitive neuroscience -- Social aspects
Feminist theory.
Neurosciences.
Brain.
Neurosciences
Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain
brains.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
Neurosciences
Brain
Feminist theory
Neurosciences -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822374374
0822374374