November 8, 2006
This is how many in the humanities understand the question of nature--in terms of the female body as nature and the primitive:
Jan Saudek, Fate Descends towards the River Leading Two Innocent Children, 1970
The female body as biological is what is critiqued. If we are our biology then we need a complex and subtle account of that biology; one that avoids the reduction of the social and the cultural to the biological as routinely performed by sociobiology.
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