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reductionism may be a difficult and ongoing struggle. However, it is high time to leave the old and fallacious certainties of essentialism and biological determinism behind and embrace the challenge of a nonessentialist, nondualist future, one that fully embraces the dynamic complexity, potentialities, and constraints of human life. Theories such as developmental dynamic systems theories are attempting to capture this complexity. In feminist theory we need to take account of the material and the biological. The “new materialism” and the “new biology” converge on similar visions and together provide a more adequate base for theorizing human ontology and potential and – critically – they provide a better foundation for feminist theory and action.

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