Neurofeminism

Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science

Robyn Bluhm author Heidi Lene Maibom author Anne Jaap Jacobson author A Jaap Jacobson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:27th Jan '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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ISABELLE DUSSAUGE is Assistant Professor, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University, Sweden GILLIAN EINSTEIN is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada CORDELIA FINE is Associate Professor, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia GIORDANA GROSSI is Associate Professor of Psychology, SUNY New Paltz, USA GINGER HOFFMAN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA REBECCA M. JORDAN-YOUNG is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, USA ANELIS KAISER is Visiting Professor, Psychology, Science, and Gender, Institute of Pedagogical Psychology/Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies Technical University Berlin, Germany LETITIA MEYNELL is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, cross-appointed with the Gender and Women's Studies Program, Dalhousie University, Canada DEBOLEENA ROY is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University, USA RAFFAELA RUMIATI is Associate Professor, SISSA Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy

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?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?

ISBN: 9780230296732

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 575g

284 pages