Formation | September 15, 2012 |
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Founders | Isabelle Dussauge and Anelis Kaiser |
Founded at | Uppsala, Sweden |
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 |
Website | Official website |
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]