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These considerations make feminist biology debatable and conflictive with itself, particularly when concerning matters of biological determinism, whereby descriptive sex terms of male and female are intrinsically confining, or extreme postmodernism, whereby the body is viewed more as a social construct. [3]
Jun 22, 2011 · In section three we discuss feminist analyses of some foundational concepts within philosophy of biology and philosophy of science more generally, such as biological determinism, reductionism, and essentialism.
Jul 21, 2017 · This epistemological divide between modernism and postmodernism is central to understanding how differences between individuals assigned to different sex categories have been taken up, related debates within feminist psychology, and to the connected issue of how the biological matters.
- H Lorraine Radtke
- 2017
Jun 22, 2011 · Feminist philosophers of biology, such as Bleier (1984) and Fausto-Sterling (1992), reveal a series of problems with studies that purport to find sex differences in brain anatomy, brain lateralization, and hormones that are correlated with gender differences in behavioral traits and abilities.
Dec 20, 2015 · I identify several substantive parallels in the issues of interest, and methodological and conceptual frameworks employed, in the research traditions of feminist and non-feminist philosophy of biology.
- Lynn Hankinson-Nelson
- lynnhank@uw.edu
- 2016
Recent and contemporary manifestations of biological determinism, primarily centering on genes, hormones, and the brain, are discussed and criticized. Essentialist theories about male–female differences are outlined along with the feminist response to them.
It demonstrates the feminist and non-feminist philosophy of biology to get the science regarding sex, women, and gender right. The gender norms range from specific claims about men being suited to business and women to domestic labor.
