Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body PDF
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psychosomatic elizabeth a. wilson ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ P S Y C H O S O M A T I C ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Feminism and the Neurological Body Duke University Press Durham / London 2004 ∫ 2004 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Typeset in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data appear on the last printed page of this book. Instead of talking about the natural and the unnatural—or even nature and culture— we can talk about the parts of nature we prefer and why we prefer them.—Adam Phillips, Darwin’s Worms ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ C O N T E N T S ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Somatic Compliance 1 1 Freud, Prozac, and Melancholic Neurology 15 2 The Brain in the Gut 31 3 Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay’s Study of Sexual Orientation 49 4 Trembling, Blushing: Darwin’s Nervous System 63 5 Emotional Lizards: Evolution and the Reptilian Brain 79 Notes 97 References 113 Index 123 ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ This book was written under the auspices of an Austra- lian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, held in the Research In- stitute for Humanities and Social Sciences (rihss) at the University of Sydney. My thanks to Paul Patton, Margaret Harris, Rowanne Couch, and Melissa McMahon for their support at rihss. It has been an exemplary research environment, and a happy place to work. Sydney continues to give me wonderful intellectual allies, especially Helen Keane, Vicki Kirby, Elizabeth McMahon, Robert Reynolds, and Vanessa Smith. Peta Allen Shera did great research work for me. During the writing of this book I was a member of the Silvan Tomkins Research Group in Syd- ney; I have learned many good things in the company of Maria Angel, Susan Best, Anna Gibbs, Melissa Hardie, Doris McIlwain, and Gillian Straker. Isobel Pegrum has been the most wonderful friend, and Jeanette Martin has made all the good things better. In the United States and the United Kingdom I am grateful to Karen Barad, Penelope Deutscher, Richard Doyle, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Michael Fortun, Mariam Fraser, Marsha Rosengarten, Susan Squier, and Elizabeth Weed, who have responded to my work generously and have invited me into their workplaces and oftentimes their homes. They have made my intellec- tual world richer and more emotionally substantial. Much of the material in this book was test-driven at the annual conferences of the Society for Litera- ture and Science. The sls has been an important source of intellectual encouragement for me over many years; many thanks to my colleagues and friends at sls for their hospitality. Reynolds Smith at Duke University Press
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