ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some of the feminist and queer responses to research in cognitive neuroscience. The first half focuses on feminist critiques of cognitive neuroscience practice, especially research on sex/gender differences in the brain. Feminists have critiqued theoretical and background assumptions of sex/gender difference research, the methods used, the way the results are analyzed and reported, and the research question itself. The second half discusses approaches that move beyond critiquing specific practices and instead offer alternate practices and frameworks in pursuit of a feminist practice of cognitive neuroscience. These new frameworks are derived from a range of philosophical approaches, with some appealing to more stringent empirical standards, and others based in science and technology studies and continental philosophy, some drawing from queer theory, and others developed from feminist standpoint epistemology.
