heptagrammaton’s Reviews > Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality > Status Update

Broke's ideas about development during childhood rested ... on a set of beliefs about racial brain differences ... Broca advanced a new scientific view by separating it from an older set of political belief systems to which it had been linked, and attaching it to a new constellation. His one area of overlap [...] provided continuity and acceptability . . .

(Ch. 5, fn. 14)

note: in discussing E. Grosz's view of the construction of body and mind (pp.24-25) Fausto-Sterling criticizes the use of the terminology of the "drive" as "ill-defined" (fn. 112, p.270.) I suspect that this may be a bit of misapprehension stemming from unfamiliarity(?) the fickle complex philosophical discourses this seems to pull on (and possibly, in part, of how shoddily Deleuze and Guattari have been translated?)