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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453864403321

Titolo

Sexualized brains [[electronic resource] ] : scientific modeling of emotional intelligence from a cultural perspective / / edited by Nicole C. Karafyllis and Gotlind Ulshöfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-31003-1

0-262-27671-2

1-4356-8143-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KarafyllisNicole C. <1970->

UlshöferGotlind <1967->

Disciplina

155.3/3

Soggetti

Sex differences (Psychology)

Sex role - Psychological aspects

Emotional intelligence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Intelligent Emotions and Sexualized Brains-Discourses, Scientific Models, and Their Interdependencies; I Historical Analysis: Cultural and Scientific Forces; 2 Genius, Gender, and Elite in the History of the Neurosciences; 3 The Biosexual Foundations of Our Modern Concept of Gender; 4 Emotional Styles and Modern Forms of Life; II Emotions in the Laboratories: Methods and Impacts; 5 Technology Assessment of Neuroimaging: Sex and Gender Perspectives

6 Emotional Intelligence, Professional Qualifications, and Psychologists' Need for Gender Research7 Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, Misled Science, and Sound Science: A Review and Critical Synthesis of Perspectives from the Field of Psychology; III Socioeconomic Contexts: Emotional Brains at Work; 8 Emotional Capital, Therapeutic Language, and the Habitus of "The New Man"; 9 Technologies of the Emotional Self: Affective Computing and the "Enhanced Second Skin" for Flexible Employees; 10 The Economic Brain: Neuroeconomics and "Post-Autistic



Economics" through the Lens of Gender

IV Self-Representations: The Human Person and Her Emotional Media11 Emotional Intelligence at the Interface of Brain Function, Communication, and Culture: The Role of Media Aesthetics in Shaping Empathy; 12 Oneself as Another? Autism and Emotional Intelligence as Pop Science, and the Establishment of "Essential" Differences; 13 Social Emotions and Brain Research: From Neurophilosophy to a Neurosociology of Law; References; About the Authors; Name Index; Subject Index; Color Insert

Sommario/riassunto

The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "essential differences" in male and female brains and behaviors--is based on neuroscience research and neuroimages of emotions. In Sexualized Brains, scholars from a range of disciplines reflect on the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence (EI) can be located in the brain and that it is legitimate to attribute distinct kinds of emotions to the biological sexes. The brain, as an icon, has colonized the humanities and social sciences, leading to the emergence of such new disciplines as neurosociology, neuroeconomics, and neurophilosophy. Neuroscience and psychology now have the power to transform not only the practice of science but also contemporary society. These developments, the essays in this volume show, will soon affect the very heart of gender studies. Contributors examine historical views of gender, sex, and elite brains (the influential idea of the "genius"); techniques for representing and measuring emotions and EI (including neuroimaging and pop science); the socioeconomic contexts of debates on elites, EI, and gender and the underlying power of the brain as a model to legitimize social disparities.ContributorsAnne Bartsch, Carmen Baumeler, Myriam Bechtoldt, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Malte-Christian Gruber, Michael Hagner, Barbel Husing, Eva Illouz, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Carolyn MacCann, Gerald Matthews, Robert Nye, William Reddy, Richard D. Roberts, Ralf Schulze, Gotlind Ulshofer, Moshe Zeidner



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780169303321

Titolo

Charlotte Perkins Gilman [[electronic resource] ] : optimist reformer / / edited by Jill Rudd & Val Gough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1999

ISBN

1-58729-310-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RuddJill

GoughVal

Disciplina

818.409

818/.409

Soggetti

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Social problems in literature

Optimism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction  Jill Rudd & Val Gough; Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Rights of Women Her Legacy for the 1990's Ann J. Lane; The Intellectualism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Evolutionary Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Class Lisa Ganobcsik - Williams; ''What a Comfort a Woman Doctor Is!'' Medical Women in the Life and Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Frederick we gener; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ""Three Women Work,"" Marriage, and the Old(er) Woman

Home Is Where the Heart Is - Or Is It? ""Three Women"" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Theory of the Home Marie T. Farr Kitchenless Houses and Homes Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reform of Architectural Space Yvonne Gaudelius; Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Educational Reform Deborah M. Desimone; Consumption, Production, and Reproduction in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Naomi B. Zauderer; Reconfiguring Vice Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Prostitution, and Frontier Sexual Contracts Judith A. Allen

''Fecundate! Discriminate!'' Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Theologizing of Maternity Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar Hair Today,



Shorn Tomorrow? Hair Symbolism, Gender, and the Agency of Self Karen Stevenson; ''Written to Drive Nails With'' : Recalling the Early Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Catherine J . Golden; ''But O My Heart'' The Private Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Denise D. Knight; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"These essays exemplify all the virtues of interdisciplinarity in consideration of that most multi-disciplined of writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The contributors simultaneously clarify and complicate our understanding of some of the more vexed areas of Gilman's work by engaging saliently with her theories of ethnicity, class, prostitution, and the dynamics of gender; posing difficult questions to contemporary feminist scholars; and providing sensitive and insightful guidance to a well-chosen and wide range of texts."-Janet Beer, author of Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.