Those of you who were particularly interested in our discussions on January 20 of neurological research on sex/gender and brain structures may want to keep an eye out for this new book: Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. It’s a collection of essays by scholars from different disciplines about how recent neuroscience research affects traditional feminist issues. (Cordelia Fine, author of Delusions of Gender, is one of the contributors.) Here is the table of contents:
- 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
