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Neurofeminism and feminist neurosciences: a critical review of contemporary brain research

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2014
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Title
Neurofeminism and feminist neurosciences: a critical review of contemporary brain research
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00546
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Authors

Sigrid Schmitz, Grit Höppner

Abstract

To date, feminist approaches to neurosciences have evaluated the debates surrounding practices of knowledge production within and research results of contemporary brain research. Consequently, neurofeminist scholars have critically examined gendered impacts of neuroscientific research. Feminist neuroscientists also develop research approaches for a more gender-appropriate neuroscientific research on several levels. Based on neurofeminist critique feminist neuroscientists aim to enrich neuroscientific work by offering methodological suggestions for a more differentiated setup of categories and experimental designs, for reflective result presentations and interpretations as well as for the analysis of result validity. Reframing neuro-epistemologies by including plasticity concepts works to uncover social influences on the gendered development of the brain and of behavior. More recently, critical work on contemporary neurocultures has highlighted the entanglements of neuroscientific research within society and the implications of 'neurofacts' for gendered cultural symbolisms, social practices, and power relations. Not least, neurofeminism critically analyses the portrayal of neuro-knowledge in popular media. This article presents on overview on neurofeminist debates and on current approaches of feminist neurosciences. The authors conclude their review by calling for a more gender-appropriate research approach that takes into account both its situatedness and reflections on the neuroscientific agenda, but also questions neurofeminist discourse in regards to uses and misuses of its concepts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 145 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 22%
Student > Master 22 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 14%
Researcher 17 11%
Professor 10 7%
Other 28 18%
Unknown 21 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 33 22%
Social Sciences 27 18%
Neuroscience 17 11%
Arts and Humanities 14 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 8%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 25 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 60. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 June 2023.
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#760,805
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#328
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#6,817
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#14
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