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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing.
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| 著者・編者 | Claggett, Shalyn, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) |
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2023 |
| ページ数 | 272 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-19745＞ |
解説
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 Bronte, 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.