Author Archives: Victoria Pitts-Taylor

About Victoria Pitts-Taylor

I have been interested in Body Studies - interdisciplinary perspectives on the body and embodiment - for about fifteen years. My work concerns the relations between the physical body, culture, and subjectivity, and I pay special attention to issues of gender and sexuality. I teach sociology and women's studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where I am also head of Women's Studies.

brains in the flesh

The brain has largely been ignored in body studies, and for a long time the neurosciences generally ignored the rest of the body, and embodiment. But the spread of neuroscience into general knowledge about the body and self places the … Continue reading

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