Publication details
Nalézání spojenců na nečekaných místech. Elizabeth Grosz přepisuje binarismus příroda vs. kultura
| Title in English | Finding Allies at Unexpected Places. Elizabeth Grosz Re-writes the Nature-Culture Binarism |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | feminism; feminist theory; nature; culture; evolution theory |
| Description | Even after destabilizing of the binary nature-culture thinking, social science including feminist theory keeps conceptualitzing nature as inert, fixed and uchangeable. As the opposite of culture, nature is supposed to belong to hard science together with the concepts developed within the realm of biology. Feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz reconceptualizes one of the hardest naturalist theories Darwins evolution theory. She re-reads it as an account which provides an open-ended and dynamic understanding of the intermingling of history and biology and a complex theory of the movements of difference, bifurcation and becoming which in an endless play of repetition and generative surprise is typical of both natural and social life. The author thus recontextualizes and reevaluates classical biological theory for the uses and inspiration to social science. |
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