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Equal Natures
- Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing
Engelsk Paperback

Equal Natures

- Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing
Engelsk Paperback

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Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association

In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially constructed forms of power and gender inequality. Focusing on phrenology-the first science of brain localization and the most popular science in nineteenth-century Britain-Claggett shows how these writers leveraged phrenology''s premise that the seat of identity is innate rather than acquired to make new claims about women''s intellectual abilities and psychological complexity. Whereas male scientists often used phrenology to support racist and colonialist agendas, in the hands of women, an appeal to biology became a tool of subversion. Through historically contextualized analyses of works by Charlotte and Anne Brontë, Harriet Martineau, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and George Eliot, Equal Natures demonstrates how biology was used to contest conventional understandings of individual identity and interpersonal relations. In doing so, it counters a dominant assumption in feminist theory that essentialism has been the exclusive province of patriarchal values and reactionary political aims.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781438493169
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438493169
Udg. Dato:
2 nov 2023
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 nov 2023
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