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âInsurmountable barriers to our unionâ: Homosocial male bonding, homosexual panic, and death on the ice in Frankenstein
Anxieties of Legitimacy: The Origins and Influence of the âClassicist Stanceâ in American Rhetoric Studies
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Motherhood, evolutionary psychology and mirror neurons or: âGrammar is politics by other meansâ
Through a close analysis of socio-biologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdyâs work on motherhood and âmirror neuronsâ it is argued that Hrdyâs claims exemplify how research that ostensibly bases itself on neuroscience, including in literary studies âliterary Darwinismâ, relies after all not on scientific, but on political assumptions, namely on underlying, unquestioned claims about the autonomous, transparent, liberal agent of consumer capitalism. These underpinning assumptions, it is further argued, involve the suppression or overlooking of an alternative, prior tradition of feminist theory, including feminist science criticism