Re-Queering the Brain

Dussauge, Isabelle; Kaiser, Anelis

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“…Alongside with previously published work (e.g. [1,[10][11][12]), the articles in the present special issue make three ongoing trends on that frontline salient:…”

Section: Generative Directionsmentioning

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Neuroscience and Sex/Gender

Dussauge

Kaiser

2012

Neuroethics

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This special issue publishes interdisciplinary scholarship which aims to map and re-imagine the relations between neuroscience and gender studies. neuroGenderings: The NetworkThe authors of the present special issue were all participants in the workshop neuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain (Uppsala, 2010). Then coorganizers, now guest editors, we work in gender studies, neuroscience, and science and technology studies. In 2010, we did not know for a fact that the neuroGenderings initiative would grow and develop into an international network and conference series. Now we know.In neuroGenderings, a transdisciplinary and international group of researchers from the neurosciences, the humanities and science studies working on and in the neuroscience of gender convened to discuss the broad theme of sex/gender and the brain. As this specific interdisciplinary field of research usually hosts very different epistemological approaches, a common knowledge of neuroscience and gender studies was a prerequisite for the group's theoretical and methodological exchange. The participants lively debated crucial issues, from current research on sex/gender difference in neuropsychology, through the implications of notions of sex/gender, gender identity and sexuality used in neuroscientific experimentation, to the social workings of a sexed/gendered brain.More precisely, the neuroGenderings workshop achieved an impressive first mapping of the research on sex/gender in neurosciences and the methodological frames used in those sciences. We discussed, for instance, the role assigned to "sexed" regions of the brain, by analyzing the relevance of the notion of sexual dimorphism, itself a system of significance that is always and solely framed by neuro-logical sexual dichotomy. Further, we elaborated on what kind of sex/gender facts, results, and understandings of the brain dominate in neurosciences and how neuroscientific facts about sex/ gender are produced. We recapitulated how neuro-sex/ gender-facts are dependent on our contemporary historical and political context and we discussed some of the ethical and political consequences of neuroscientific knowledge production about sex/gender and sexuality. Not least, neuroGenderings explored the workings of neurosexism without dismissing neuroscience altogether. Neurosexism is a term launched by psychologist Cordelia Fine [1], and it stands for the (mis)use of neuroscientific facts and factoids [2] to assert that women and men are categorically Neuroethics (2012) 5:211-215

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“…Alongside with previously published work (e.g. [1,[10][11][12]), the articles in the present special issue make three ongoing trends on that frontline salient:…”

Section: Generative Directionsmentioning

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Neuroscience and Sex/Gender

Dussauge

Kaiser

2012

Neuroethics

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“…They argue for recognizing not only existing diversities within sex/gender categories but also their openness to future transformations. Isabelle Dussauge and Anelis Kaiser (2012a) argue that gender and sexuality must be understood as performative, or "constituted in their repeated and contextual making" (142). Further, "stable categories of gender and sexual preference have to be left behind; instead, we need to open them up and focus on diversity not only within these categories but also within individual subjects" (142).…”

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The Brain's Body

Pitts‐Taylor¹

2016

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Neurobiology and the Queerness of Kinship 95 Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Embodiment 119 Notes 129 References 153 Index 177 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank many people and organizations for their assistance with this project. The journal Hypatia published an earlier version of chapter 3, as "I Feel Your Pain: Embodied Knowledges and Situated Neurons" (2013). I thank the journal and its editors and reviewers for feedback. My editor at Duke University Press, Courtney Berger, offered invaluable guidance, as did three anonymous readers. A Mellon Foundation midcareer faculty fellowship supported my participation in a seminar run by the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, whose members gave feedback on several chapters of this book. So did the members of the NeuroCultures Seminar that ran from 2010-12 at the Graduate Center, which Jason Tougaw and Rachel Liebert coorganized with me. Members of the Neurogenderings Network, whose conferences I attended in Vienna and Lausanne, offered insight into the possibilities for feminist neuroscience and positive critique. The Center for the Study of Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania provided funding for me to attend their residential training for nonscientists in 2010. I also thank cuny and the Department of Sociology at Queens College for funding to attend the University of Pennsylvania. The Hastings Center for Bioethics provided a beautiful space to work during my sabbatical. I am grateful for helpful conversations and feedback from colleagues and friends, including

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“…However, the outcome of research on differences between women and men in terms of linguistic abilities, spatial orientation, or mathematics—that is, of cognitive capacities in general—is by no means conclusive (Schmitz, 1999 ; Coluccia and Louse, 2004 ; Spelke, 2005 ; Mehl et al, 2007 ; Else-Quest et al, 2010 ; Lavenex and Lavenex, 2010 ; Fausto-Sterling et al, 2012a , b ); neither are results on emotional or rational processing (Karafyllis, 2008 ), nor is the state of the art on brain basics for sexual orientation and desire. The influence of heteronormative notions of sexual orientation and desire to sex/gender determinism has been impressively shown, for example, by Dussauge and Kaiser ( 2012a ).…”

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“…Hence, the disclosure of the impartible entanglements of brain, bodies, mind, behavior, socio-cultural contexts, and meaning-making serves as an inspiration for neurofeminist debates. Wilson ( 1998 ) already started employing these approaches in Neural Geographies and scholars from the NeuroGender Network have recently called for addressing the brain’s agency in a non-essentialist manner (Dussauge and Kaiser, 2012a ; Kraus, 2012a ; Schmitz, 2014a ).…”

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Neurofeminism and feminist neurosciences: a critical review of contemporary brain research

Schmitz¹,

Höppner²

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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To date, feminist approaches to neurosciences have evaluated the debates surrounding practices of knowledge production within and research results of contemporary brain research. Consequently, neurofeminist scholars have critically examined gendered impacts of neuroscientific research. Feminist neuroscientists also develop research approaches for a more gender-appropriate neuroscientific research on several levels. Based on neurofeminist critique feminist neuroscientists aim to enrich neuroscientific work by offering methodological suggestions for a more differentiated setup of categories and experimental designs, for reflective result presentations and interpretations as well as for the analysis of result validity. Reframing neuro-epistemologies by including plasticity concepts works to uncover social influences on the gendered development of the brain and of behavior. More recently, critical work on contemporary neurocultures has highlighted the entanglements of neuroscientific research within society and the implications of ‘neurofacts’ for gendered cultural symbolisms, social practices, and power relations. Not least, neurofeminism critically analyses the portrayal of neuro-knowledge in popular media. This article presents on overview on neurofeminist debates and on current approaches of feminist neurosciences. The authors conclude their review by calling for a more gender-appropriate research approach that takes into account both its situatedness and reflections on the neuroscientific agenda, but also questions neurofeminist discourse in regards to uses and misuses of its concepts.

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Re-Queering the Brain

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