Women's History Month Scholar-in-Residence: Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor "Feminism, Science, and Corporeal Politics"

Thursday, March 17, 2016, 12:30 pm to 2 pm
Campus: 
Dayton
Millett Hall Atrium
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Current Students
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This year's Women's History Month Scholar-in-Residence is Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor, a Professor and Chair of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as a Professor of Science in Society and Sociology, at Wesleyan University.

In her lecture she will examine how power and inequality are entangled with bodies, particularly neurobiological bodies—those defined in relation to the brain and nervous systems. Drawing from her latest book, "The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics," Dr. Pitts-Taylor argues that the stratifications of sex/gender, race and class, ability and disability affect both representations of the brain and their regulation or governance. She argues for more critical attention to how universality and difference are enacted in neuroscience and shows the relevance of feminist perspectives for understanding the brain, the neurobiological body, and their social entanglements.

The Women’s History Month Residency is sponsored by Wright State University's Women’s Center and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. For more information, please contact the Women's Center at 937-775-4524.

For information, contact
Hope Jennings
Program Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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