ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts of sex and gender in feminist theory and offers a brief history of feminist approaches to science and to neuroscience specifically. It discusses in detail two areas in which feminist neuroethics has critiqued neuroscience research and offered new models and approaches: models of sex/gender and the brain; and neuroimaging methods for studying sex/gender differences. The chapter explores a feminist neuroethical analysis of single-sex versus coeducation to provide an example of how feminist neuroethics can be employed to critique the use of neuroscience research on sex and gender in social policy while also suggesting ways to use this research differently. It explains "neurogenderings", or the complex ways in which brains become sexed and gendered in the world and in the neuroscience lab. Feminist approaches to science attempt to rectify androcentric, patriarchal, or sexist biases that run through biological theories of sexual difference.
