Mari Greenfield
@marigreenfield.bsky.social
Researcher, academic writer, doula, birth activist, LGBTQ activist and home educating/worldschooling parent.
The article is open for reading and sharing :-).
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Where are the birthing women? Rethinking agency, culture, and explanation in evolutionary psychology
This paper examines the systematic omission of childbirth from evolutionary psychology, arguing that this lacuna reflects deeper epistemological and ideological limitations within the field. While ...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The article is open for reading and sharing :-).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spoiler: It's not just a matter of forgetfulness, but of how the scientific field chooses what is interesting measurable and researchable.
If the goal is to understand the soul, we must also know the consciousness at birth, through approaches that ignore the cultural/behavioral complexity at birth.
If the goal is to understand the soul, we must also know the consciousness at birth, through approaches that ignore the cultural/behavioral complexity at birth.
May 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Spoiler: It's not just a matter of forgetfulness, but of how the scientific field chooses what is interesting measurable and researchable.
If the goal is to understand the soul, we must also know the consciousness at birth, through approaches that ignore the cultural/behavioral complexity at birth.
If the goal is to understand the soul, we must also know the consciousness at birth, through approaches that ignore the cultural/behavioral complexity at birth.
The article analyzes fundamental books in the field and shows how birth - an evolutionary peak moment of risk, pain and power - remains transparent.
So why does science that claims to explain the human soul and behavior simply ignore the most powerful and transformative moment in a woman's life?
So why does science that claims to explain the human soul and behavior simply ignore the most powerful and transformative moment in a woman's life?
May 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The article analyzes fundamental books in the field and shows how birth - an evolutionary peak moment of risk, pain and power - remains transparent.
So why does science that claims to explain the human soul and behavior simply ignore the most powerful and transformative moment in a woman's life?
So why does science that claims to explain the human soul and behavior simply ignore the most powerful and transformative moment in a woman's life?
Science without birth...
A new article of mine is now published in the journal "Philosophical Psychology", in which I explore the following question: Why is the field of evolutionary psychology so much about relationships, sexuality, and parenting – but almost not at all at birth?
A new article of mine is now published in the journal "Philosophical Psychology", in which I explore the following question: Why is the field of evolutionary psychology so much about relationships, sexuality, and parenting – but almost not at all at birth?
May 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Science without birth...
A new article of mine is now published in the journal "Philosophical Psychology", in which I explore the following question: Why is the field of evolutionary psychology so much about relationships, sexuality, and parenting – but almost not at all at birth?
A new article of mine is now published in the journal "Philosophical Psychology", in which I explore the following question: Why is the field of evolutionary psychology so much about relationships, sexuality, and parenting – but almost not at all at birth?
The survey is asking you:
- what don't we know about LGBTQIA+ birth?
- what should future research priorities be?
Please help us set the agenda.
- what don't we know about LGBTQIA+ birth?
- what should future research priorities be?
Please help us set the agenda.
November 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM
The survey is asking you:
- what don't we know about LGBTQIA+ birth?
- what should future research priorities be?
Please help us set the agenda.
- what don't we know about LGBTQIA+ birth?
- what should future research priorities be?
Please help us set the agenda.