Victoria Pitts-Taylor

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Victoria Pitts-Taylor's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Victoria Pitts-Taylor is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and also Professor of Science in Society and Sociology there. She was formerly a professor of sociology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York. Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly. She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association, and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.

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Victoria Pitts-Taylor's Published Works

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Illness and Internet Empowerment: Writing and Reading Breast Cancer in Cyberspace (2004) (243)
Exploring a feminist routine activities approach to explaining sexual assault (1995) (233)
The plastic brain: Neoliberalism and the neuronal self (2010) (214)
In the Flesh (2003) (172)
Book Review: In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification (2006) (145)
The Brain's Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (2016) (136)
`Reclaiming' the Female Body: Embodied Identity Work, Resistance and the Grotesque (1998) (74)
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture (1999) (63)
Promoting Self-Blame in Hidden Rape Gases (1993) (56)
Self-blame in hidden rape cases. (1997) (41)
Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture (2007) (39)
Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism (2016) (30)
Becoming/Being a Cosmetic Surgery Patient: Semantic Instability and the Intersubjective Self (2009) (29)
A Feminist Carnal Sociology?: Embodiment in Sociology, Feminism, and Naturalized Philosophy (2015) (23)
Cautionary Notes on Navigating the Neurocognitive Turn (2014) (21)
Feminism, Technology and Body Projects (2005) (18)
I Feel Your Pain: Embodied Knowledges and Situated Neurons (2013) (17)
Neurobiologically Poor? Brain Phenotypes, Inequality, and Biosocial Determinism (2019) (16)
Cultural encyclopedia of the body (2008) (15)
“A slow and unrewarding and miserable pause in your life”: Waiting in medicalized gender transition (2020) (10)
Reviews (1922) (6)
Medicine, Governmentality and Biopower in Cosmetic Surgery (2016) (4)
Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-Tech Body (2003) (4)
Review Essay (2002) (4)
Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism (2012) (4)
Reclaiming the Female Body (2003) (2)
Editors' Note: New Mother (2010) (2)
Modern Primitivism and the Deployment of the Other (2003) (2)
Bodies of Power (2003) (2)
Surgery Junkies (2020) (2)
Review Symposium: Health and Body Modification (2004) (2)
Waiting-to-Death, or Security and Asylum-Seeking in a Hospital ER (2011) (2)
Reading the Postmodern Techno-Body (2003) (1)
Subversive Bodies, Invented Selves (2003) (1)
The untimeliness of trans youth: The temporal construction of a gender ‘disorder’ (2020) (1)
Controlling Homeless Mothers: The Surveillance of Women in a Homeless Shelter (2019) (1)
Espacestemps . net Penser les humains ensemble . Feminist and Queer Repoliticizations of the Brain (0)
P.O.V.: Fast Food Women, Produced by Anne Lewis Johnson. 30 minutes, color, 1992 (1993) (0)
Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. By Helen Gremillion. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+277. (2004) (0)
The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Sally Mann’s “New Child” (2017) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2009) (0)
A Body's Time: Ontology, Biosociality, Power (2018) (0)
5. The Surgery Junkie as Legal Subject (2020) (0)
Cosmetic Surgery as Failure (2015) (0)
1. Visible Pathology and Cosmetic Wellness (2020) (0)
2. Normal Extremes: Cosmetic Surgery Television (2020) (0)
I Feel Your Pain (2016) (0)
Neurobiology and the Queerness of Kinship (2016) (0)
Editor's Note: Input, Feed, Reboot (2009) (0)
A Feminist Carnal Sociology?: Embodiment in Sociology, Feminism, and Naturalized Philosophy (2014) (0)
Introduction: The Social Brain and Corporeal Politics (2016) (0)
Editors’ Note: Security, Safety, Safe (2011) (0)
Editors' Note: Do You Buy This? (2011) (0)
The Embodied Mind and Epistemic Difference: Lessons from Disability Studies (2014) (0)
6. The Self and the Limits of Interiority (2020) (0)
What Difference Does the Body Make (2016) (0)
The Phenomenon of Brain Plasticity (2016) (0)
Science, Critique, Authority, and Accountability (2020) (0)
The Body, Biomedicine and Governmentality (2008) (0)
Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Embodiment (2016) (0)

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