Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing by Claggett, Shalyn
Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing by Claggett, Shalyn

Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing

In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to...
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Author: Shalyn Claggett
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing by Claggett, Shalyn

Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing

$105.60
Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing by Claggett, Shalyn

Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing

$105.60
Author: Shalyn Claggett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Shalyn Claggett
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 11/02/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781438493169
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