The NeuroGenderings Network explained

The NeuroGenderings Network
Founders:Isabelle Dussauge and Anelis Kaiser
Founding Location:Uppsala, Sweden
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Purpose:To critically examine neuroscientific knowledge production and to develop differentiated approaches for a more gender adequate neuroscientific research.
Fields:Critical neuroscientific research into sex differences
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The NeuroGenderings Network is an international group of researchers in neuroscience and gender studies.[1] Members of the network study how the complexities of social norms, varied life experiences, details of laboratory conditions and biology interact to affect the results of neuroscientific research.[2] Working under the label of "neurofeminism", they aim to critically analyze how the field of neuroscience operates, and to build an understanding of brain and gender that goes beyond gender essentialism while still treating the brain as fundamentally material.[3] [4] [5] Its founding was part of a period of increased interest and activity in interdisciplinary research connecting neuroscience and the social sciences.[6]

History

The group, comprising scholars who specialized in feminism, queer theory and gender studies, formed to tackle "neurosexism" as defined by Cordelia Fine in her 2010 book Delusions of Gender: "uncritical biases in [neuroscientific] research and public perception, and their societal impacts on an individual, structural, and symbolic level."[7] Research can suffer from neurosexism by failing to include the social factors and expectations that shape sex differences, which possibly leads to making inferences based on flawed data.

By contrast, the network members advocate "neurofeminism",[8] aiming to critically evaluate heteronormative assumptions of contemporary brain research and examine the impact and cultural significance of neuroscientific research on society's views about gender.[9] This includes placing greater emphasis on neuroplasticity rather than biological determinism.[10]

Conferences

In March 2010, the first conference – NeuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain – was held in Uppsala, Sweden.[11] [12] Organisers Anelis Kaiser and Isabelle Dussauge described its long terms goals "to elaborate a new conceptual approach of the relation between gender and the brain, one that could help to head gender theorists and neuroscientists to an innovative interdisciplinary place, far away from social and biological determinisms but still engaging with the materiality of the brain."[13] The NeuroGenderings Network was established at this event,[14] with the group's first results published in a special issue of the journal Neuroethics.[15] [16]

Further conferences have since been held on a biennial basis:[17] NeuroCultures — NeuroGenderings II, September 2012 at the University of Vienna's physics department;[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] NeuroGenderings III – The First International Dissensus[23] Conference on Brain and Gender, May 2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland;[24] [25] [26] and NeuroGenderings IV in March 2016, at Barnard College, New York City.[27]

Members

The members of the NeuroGenderings Network are:[28]

Bibliography

Books
Book chapters
Journal articles
Opposing publicationsBelow is a list of works which cause the network concern due to their "neurodeterminist notions of a ‘sexed brain’ [which] are being transported into public discourse [..] without reflecting the biases in empirical work."[29]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Breit . Lisa . Genderforschung: Das Soziale an der Biologie . 1 March 2016 . 26 October 2018 . . de.
  2. Web site: Geschlechterunterschiede: Das Spiel der Hormone im Hirn . 24 May 2017 . Krichmayr . Karin . . de . 26 October 2018.
  3. Schmitz . Sigrid . Höppner . Grit . Sigrid Schmitz . Neurofeminism and feminist neurosciences: a critical review of contemporary brain research . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience . 8 . article 546 . 546 . 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00546 . 25120450 . 4111126 . 25 July 2014 . free .
  4. News: Dussauge . Isabelle . Anelis . Anelis . Isabelle Dussauge . Anelis Kaiser . Feminist and queer repoliticizations of the brain . EspacesTemps.net | Brain Mind Society . 13 April 2015 . 28 August 2017.
  5. Roy . Deboleena . Deboleena Roy . Neuroscience and feminist theory: a new directions essay . . 41 . 3 . 531 - 552 . 10.1086/684266 . Spring 2016 . 146995854 .
  6. Book: Callard . F. . Fitzgerald . D. . Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences . Meeting People is Easy: The Pragmatics of Interdisciplinary Collaboration . . 2016 . 1014459177.
  7. Book: Fine, Cordelia . Cordelia Fine . Delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference . W.W. Norton . New York . 2010 . 9780393068382 .
  8. Book: Bluhm . Robyn . Maibom . Heidi Lene . Jaap Jacobson . Anne . Robyn Bluhm . Neurofeminism: issues at the intersection of feminist theory and cognitive science . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 2012 . 9780230296732 .
  9. Book: Kaiser . Anelis . Dussauge . Isabelle . Anelis Kaiser . Isabelle Dussauge . Re-queering the brain . Bluhm . Robyn . Jacobson . Anne Jaap . Maibom . Heidi Lene . Robyn Bluhm . Neurofeminism: issues at the intersection of feminist theory and cognitive science . 121 - 144 . Palgrave Macmillan . Hampshire New York . 2014 . 9781349333929.
  10. Vidal . Catherine . The sexed brain: between science and ideology . Neuroethics . 5 . 3 . 295 - 303 . 10.1007/s12152-011-9121-9 . December 2012 . 145584327 .
  11. Kraus, Cynthia (2016), "What is the feminist critique of neuroscience? A call for dissensus studies (notes to page 100)", in Book: de Vos . Jan . Pluth . Ed . Neuroscience and critique: exploring the limits of the neurological turn . 113 . Routledge . London New York . 2016 . 9781138887350 .
  12. Web site: Tverrfaglig forståelse . 30 April 2010 . 26 October 2018 . no . Kristin . Engh Førde . Forskning.no.
  13. Web site: NeuroGenderings: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain . genna.gender.uu.se . Uppsala University, Sweden . 23 August 2017.
  14. Web site: The body/Embodiment group . genna.gender.uu.se . Uppsala University, Sweden . 23 August 2017.
  15. Kaiser . Anelis . Dussauge . Isabelle . Anelis Kaiser . Isabelle Dussauge . Neuroscience and sex/gender . Neuroethics . 5 . 3 . 211 - 216 . 10.1007/s12152-012-9165-5 . December 2012 . free .
  16. Web site: What is Feminist Neuroethics About? . Wills . Ben . The Neuroethics Blog . . 2017-03-14 . 2018-10-27.
  17. Web site: Chaperon . Sylvie . Neuroféminisme contre neurosexisme . fr . . 15 May 2018 . 26 October 2018.
  18. Web site: Welcome to NeuroCultures - NeuroGenderings II . univie.ac.at . . 23 August 2017.
  19. Web site: A Dispatch from the NeuroGenderings II Conference . The Neuroethics Blog . . Gupta . Kristina . 26 October 2018 . 2 October 2012.
  20. Web site: MacLellan . Lila . 27 August 2017 . The biggest myth about our brains is that they are "male" or "female" . . 26 October 2018 .
  21. Conrads . Judith . NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II. Konferenz vom 13. bis 15. September 2012 an der Universität Wien . Gender: Zeitschrift für Geschlect, Kultur und Gesellschaft . 5 . 1 . 138–143 . 2013 .
  22. Web site: Dachs . Augusta . Lesen aus der Gehirnstruktur . de . . 2012-09-12 . 2018-10-27 .
  23. A term expressing the idea that disagreement and social conflict are necessary parts of the discovery process: Book review: Neuroscience and Critique: Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn . History of the Human Sciences . Fitzgerald . Des . 2016-08-01.
  24. Web site: "NeuroGenderings III – The 1st international Dissensus Conference on brain and gender," Lausanne, 8-10 May 2014 . genrepsy.hypotheses.org . 5 May 2014 . Genre et psychiatrie . 10.58079/oz8n . 23 August 2017 . genrepsy .
  25. News: Le sexe du cerveau ne fait pas consensus . . 5 May 2014 . Pulver . Jonas . fr . 26 October 2018.
  26. Web site: NeuroGenderings III Conference Recap . International Neuroethics Society Newsletter . . September 2014 . 2018-10-27 .
  27. Web site: 2016 Seed Grants . Center for Science and Society . . 26 October 2018.
  28. Web site: Members . neurogenderings.wordpress.com . The NeuroGenderings Network . 23 August 2017. 2014-10-21 .
  29. Schmitz. Sigrid. Höppner. Grit. 2014-07-25. Neurofeminism and feminist neurosciences: A critical review of contemporary brain research. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 546. 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00546. 25120450. 4111126. 1662-5161. free.

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