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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing (Suny Series in Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
Shalyn Claggett (Author)
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State Univ Of New York Pr
· Hardcover
Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing (Suny Series in Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) - Shalyn Claggett
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Synopsis "Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing (Suny Series in Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)"
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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