Neurofeminism - (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science) by Robyn Bluhm & Heidi Lene Maibom & Anne Jaap Jacobson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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?

About the Author

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