Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Allbritton Center, 220860-685-2264
Professor, Science in Society
Allbritton Center, 220860-685-2264
Professor, Sociology
Allbritton Center, 220860-685-2264
BA Ohio University
PHD Brandeis University
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Victoria Pitts-Taylor studies how the body is understood and modified by medicine, science and culture. Professor Pitts-Taylor is author of The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (Duke University Press, 2016), which won the Philosophy of Science Association's Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Phiolosophy of Science and the Robert K. Merton Book Prize from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. She is also author of In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification (2003, Palgrave Macmillan) and Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture (2007, Rutgers University Press). She is the Editor of the two-volume Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (2008, Greenwood Press), and Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism (NYU Press, 2016). She is a past recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Advancement of the Discipline Award and a former co-editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly). She served as the first elected chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Body and Embodiment.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fridays 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST and by appointment, https://wesleyan.zoom.us/meeting/99839996221
Courses
Fall 2021
FGSS 209 - 01
Feminist Theories