A Review of Gut Feminism
By Katie Givens Kime Katie Givens Kime is a doctoral student at Emory University in the Graduate Division of Religion , as well as the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture , and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program. Her dissertation investigates the role of religious conceptions in addiction recovery methods. As neuroscience has expanded in capacity, resources, and public attention, many in the social sciences and humanities have been loudly critical: “Reductionism! Neurobiological chauvinism!” The essence of such critique is that the objectivity championed by the sciences masks all sorts of hidden biases, unconscious agendas, political motivations and economic purposes. Many historians and philosophers of science have argued that even choosing the object of scientific study and communicating observations inevitably involves language, point-of-view, and value prioritization. This means the nature of scientific knowledge, to an important degree, is unavoidably sociocultural [1]. Femini...