TY  - JOUR
AB  - Elizabeth Grosz's interpretation of Darwinian evolutionary theory to ground a feminist ontology of biology has been particularly controversial. Most critics have understood Grosz as supporting her theory with empirical evidence, and they criticize her for being either inaccurate or uncritical of and overly dependent on science. I argue that Grosz reads Darwin as a philosopher in a Deleuzian and Irigarayan sense, and that Grosz's project is therefore better understood in terms of its ethical and political goals rather than in terms of empirical adequacy. Employing this evaluative framework leads to a novel route for critique of Grosz's ontology in terms of its reliance on the Darwinian distinction between organism and environment. I conclude that Grosz's work is valuable for the way it maintains ethical and political considerations in feminist ontological debates, and that introducing a more sensitive understanding of the organism-environment relation will lead us closer to a truly feminist ontology of biology.
DA  - 2019
DO  - 10.1111/hypa.12487
LA  - eng
IS  - 4
M2  - 736
PY  - 2019
SN  - 0887-5367
SP  - 736-754
T2  - Hypatia
TI  - Evaluating Elizabeth Grosz's Biological Turn
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29396330
Y2  - 2024-11-22T08:48:39
ER  -