I'm also deeply suspicious of any use of 'biological' needs in arguments over human behaviour.
I note that elsewhere, Lois talks about "a certain amount of biology overlain by a lot of culture." She really does lean in the direction of "nurture" over "nature".
In this particular usage, I suspect she's casting about for a way to say "a need that is more fundamentally 'real' than the many completely-artificial social constructs of patriarchal capitalist Western society". "Instinctive" would probably be the term I'd've picked, though it, too, is problematic and I'm not entirely happy with it myself.
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Date: 2006-12-08 09:40 pm (UTC)I note that elsewhere, Lois talks about "a certain amount of biology overlain by a lot of culture." She really does lean in the direction of "nurture" over "nature".
In this particular usage, I suspect she's casting about for a way to say "a need that is more fundamentally 'real' than the many completely-artificial social constructs of patriarchal capitalist Western society". "Instinctive" would probably be the term I'd've picked, though it, too, is problematic and I'm not entirely happy with it myself.