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Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Carla Fehr
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In this paper, I ask feminist philosophers and science studies scholars to consider the goals of developing critical analyses of evolutionary psychology. These goals can include development of scholarship in feminist philosophy and science studies, mediation of the uptake of evolutionary psychology by other academic and lay communities, and improvement of the practices and products of evolutionary psychology itself. I evaluate ways that some practices of feminist philosophy and science studies facilitate or hinder meeting these goals, and consider the merits of critical engagement with some of the scientists themselves. Finally, I describe a community of feminist evolutionary psychologists with whom it might be both fruitful and interesting to engage, and identify ways that these interactions may benefit the science and the study of the science.

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Hypatia , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Winter 2012, pp. 50 - 72
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Copyright © 2012 by Hypatia, Inc.

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