Neurofeminism [electronic resource] : Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science /
Bluhm, Robyn.author.
Maibom, Heidi Lene.author.
Jaap Jacobson, Anne.author.
Jacobson, A. Jaap.editor.
Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain research on intersex conditions tell us about sex and gender?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson, and Heidi Maibom -- The politics of pictured reality : locating the object from nowhere in fMRI / Letitia Meynell -- What, if anything, can neuroscience tell us about gender differences? / Ginger Hoffman -- In a different voice? / Heidi Maibom -- The role of fetal testosterone in the development of "the essential difference" between the sexes : some essential issues / Giordana Grossi and Cordelia Fine -- Hardwired for sexism? : approaches to sex/gender in neuroscience / Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Raffaella I. Rumiati -- Re-queering the brain / Anelis Kaiser and Isabelle Dussauge -- Situated neuroscience : exploring biologies of diversity / Gillian Einstein -- Cosmopolitics and the brain : the co-becoming of practices in feminism and neuroscience / Deboleena Roy -- Beyond neurosexism : is it possible to defend the female brain? / Robyn Bluhm -- Seeing as a social phenomenon : feminist theory and the cognitive sciences / Anne Jaap Jacobson -- Linking neuroscience, medicine, gender and society through controversy and conflict analysis : a "dissensus framework" for feminist/queer brain science studies / Cynthia Kraus -- References -- Index.
Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain research on intersex conditions tell us about sex and gender?
Sociology.
Philosophy of mind.
Feminist theory.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Gender Studies.
Philosophy of Mind.
Feminism.
Social Philosophy.