Article ID: CBB001253048

Digesting Difference: Metabolism and the Question of Sexual Difference (2013)

unapi

Elizabeth Grosz's research program offers a thoughtful and complex argument for sexual difference as ontology. Gathering together Grosz's considerable writing, which she synthesizes in her most recent book, Becoming Undone, this essay explores Grosz's engagement of sexual difference through evolutionary theory. This refraction invites challenging questions with which feminist theory might think through one of its defining issues. A close reading of Grosz's work reveals contradictions, tensions, and problems in discussions of being versus becoming; duration versus the stasis of sexual difference; and neo-Darwinian humanism versus Darwinian inhumanism, and the former's consequent normalizing of sexual difference. The essay concludes with a discussion of metabolism as sexual difference's potential foil. Refracting metabolism -- as a force -- through evolutionary theory excites the significant contradictions that sexual difference as ontology sustains in Grosz's analysis.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001253048/

Similar Citations

Article Caponi, Gustavo; (2011)
Los taxones como tipos: Buffon, Cuvier y Lamarck (/isis/citation/CBB001420506/)

Article Suárez-Díaz, Edna; García-Deister, Vivette; (2015)
That 70s Show: Regulation, Evolution and Development beyond Molecular Genetics (/isis/citation/CBB001510253/)

Article Maureen A. O’Malley; Russell Powell; (2015)
Major Problems in Evolutionary Transitions: How a Metabolic Perspective Can Enrich Our Understanding of Macroevolution (/isis/citation/CBB659532133/)

Article Comfort, Nathaniel; (2008)
Cultural Darwinism (/isis/citation/CBB001030488/)

Book Elsdon-Baker, Fern; (2009)
The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy (/isis/citation/CBB001031481/)

Book Tallis, Raymond; (2011)
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (/isis/citation/CBB001251426/)

Chapter Sepkoski, David; (2008)
Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast? (/isis/citation/CBB000960105/)

Article Sandy C. Boucher; (2017)
Gould on species, metaphysics and macroevolution: A critical appraisal (/isis/citation/CBB083237950/)

Article Bearman, Alan; (2009)
Kansas vs. Darwin: A Documentary about the Kansas Evolution Hearings/Fall From Grace (/isis/citation/CBB001030765/)

Essay Review Radick, Gregory; (2003)
Cultures of Evolutionary Biology (/isis/citation/CBB000340808/)

Chapter Stenmark, Mikael; (2004)
Contemporary Darwinism and Religion (/isis/citation/CBB000500635/)

Book Woodward, Thomas; (2003)
Doubts about Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design (/isis/citation/CBB000520107/)

Chapter Ross, Don; (2002)
Dennett and the Darwin Wars (/isis/citation/CBB000600579/)

Article Thomas A. C. Reydon; Markus Scholz; (2015)
Searching for Darwinism in Generalized Darwinism (/isis/citation/CBB384666113/)

Book Brook, Andrew; Ross, Don; (2002)
Daniel Dennett (/isis/citation/CBB000600556/)

Thesis Rios, Christopher M.; (2010)
Reclaiming Peace: Evangelical Scientists and Evolution after World War II (/isis/citation/CBB001562780/)

Authors & Contributors
Ross, Don
Herring, Emily
Markus Scholz
Boucher, Sandy C.
Powell, Russell
Woodward, Thomas
Concepts
Evolution
Darwinism
Science and religion
Biology
Intelligent design (teleology)
Metabolism; physiological chemistry
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
France
Great Britain
Kansas (U.S.)
Institutions
American Scientific Affiliation
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment