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?

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Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
1 The Politics of Pictured Reality: Locating the Object from Nowhere in fMRI
2 What, If Anything, Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Gender Differences?
3 In a Different Voice?
4 The Role of Fetal Testosterone in the Development of the “Essential Difference” Between the Sexes: Some Essential Issues
5 Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience
6 Re-Queering the Brain
7 Situated Neuroscience: Exploring Biologies of Diversity
8 Cosmopolitics and the Brain: The Co-Becoming of Practices in Feminism and Neuroscience
9 Linking Neuroscience, Medicine, Gender and Society through Controversy and Conflict Analysis: A “Dissensus Framework” for Feminist/Queer Brain Science Studies
10 Seeing as a Social Phenomenon: Feminist Theory and the Cognitive Sciences
11 Beyond Neurosexism: Is It Possible to Defend the Female Brain?
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