ABSTRACT
… ONE OF THE CENTRAL DIFFICULTIES in generating a useful dialogue between feminism and psychopharmacology is the anti-biologism of contemporary feminist theory. It has become axiomatic that culture rather than nature is the proper sphere for feminist politics. This presumption underpinned the success of social constructionism as the premier mode of feminist analysis in the social sciences in the 1990s. Indeed, the turn against biological explanation was so conceptually lucrative for feminism that it now seems a nonsense to think of biology as a site of transformation or innovation (Wilson, 2004b). This schism between politics and biology remains a significant obstacle for feminist work in the current psychocultural climate. Without conceptual interest in how biology invents, transforms, crafts, redistributes, incorporates and bequeaths, feminists will remain perplexed by the character of psycho-pharmaceutical events.
