Neurofeminism

Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI "findings," this interdisciplinary 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?

ROBYN BLUHM is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University, USA. Her research examines philosophical issues in medicine and psychiatry, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethical and epistemological questions arising in medical research or clinical practice.

ANNE JAAP JACOBSON is Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, where she is also Director of the Center for Neuroengineering and cognitive science. She has published a number of papers on the history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy, and feminist philosophy. She edited Feminist Interpretations of Hume and authored Keeping the World in Mind, also from Palgrave Macmillan. She blogs frequently at Feministphilosophers.wordpress.com.

HEIDI L. MAIBOM is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Canada. She has published papers on philosophy of mind, moral psychology, emotions, and psychopathology. She is currently working on a book on moral emotions.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; R.Bluhm, A.J.Jacobson&H.Maibom
The Politics of Pictured Reality: Locating the Object from Nowhere in fMRI; L.Meynell
What, If Anything, Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Gender Differences?; G.Hoffman
In a Different Voice?; H.Maibom
The Role of Fetal Testosterone in the Development of 'The Essential Difference' Between the Sexes: Some Essential Issues; G.Grossi&C.Fine
Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience; R.M.Jordan-Young&R.I.Rumiati
Re-Queering the Brain; A.Kaiser&I.Dussauge
Situated Neuroscience: Exploring Biologies of Diversity; G.Einstein
Cosmopolitics and the Brain: The Co-Becoming of Practices in Feminism and Neuroscience; D.Roy
Beyond Neurosexism: Is it Possible to Defend the Female Brain?; R.Bluhm
Seeing as a Social Phenomenon: Feminist Theory and the Cognitive Sciences; A.J.Jacobson
Linking Neuroscience, Medicine, Gender and Society through Controversy and Conflict Analysis: A 'Dissensus Framework' for Feminist/Queer Brain Science Studies; C.Kraus
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