This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures,” edited by Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske, features contributions that engage with both the past and the future: both historicizing the deep linkages between gender and state violence and pushing readers to imagine a different future—one that is free from … Read more
A Salt Lake City police officer arrested registered nurse Alex Wubbels after Wubbels refused to allow him to take a blood sample from a sedated patient without a warrant from a judge or the patient’s consent. “I’m a health care worker,” Wubbels said. “The only job I have is to keep my patients safe.” Her … Read more
It’s gratifying when our work stimulates lively exchanges, as this issue has. The editors decided that we would like to connect some of those ongoing conversations to the issue itself, so that the exchanges become visible and help to build a broader archive of thinking and debates about sexes, genders, and brains. As we receive … Read more
The following is an edited transcript of a video presentation made by Dorothy Roberts that opened “Policing Motherhood” at Invisible No More in November 2017. In it, Roberts, an expert and pathbreaking scholar on policing of Black motherhood, succinctly summarizes conclusions drawn over decades of scholarship, including her broadly cited works Killing the Black Body: … Read more
What happens when we approach the brain as a shared object of perplexity? What happens when neuroscientists take the time and effort to reflect upon the past, present, and future progress within their own field? What happens when the question of how to study sex and/or gender differences in the brain is opened up to … Read more
Introduction The prevailing practice of using only male animals in preclinical neuroscience research is about to change. Due to a mandate from the National Health Institute (NIH) in 2015, researchers are urged to use equal number of females and males in experiments. In this conversational paper, we adopt a feminist perspective and explore the benefits … Read more
The debate about sex/gender in the brain continues with urgency in Western countries. For one example, in 2014 the National Institute of Health (NIH) began to require that scientists examine and report differences between female and male animals in all preclinical trials (Clayton and Collins 2014). For another, in 2017 the Journal of Neuroscience Research … Read more
Feminist scientists have offered clear frameworks and research methods for empirically investigating sex/gender within the biological sciences (Schiebinger 2008; Springer, Stellman, and Jordan-Young 2012; Ritz 2014; Singh and Klinge 2015; Kreiger 2003). Yet many scientists continue to struggle to operationalize gender in research design (Ruiz-Cantero et al. 2007; Jahn et al. 2017). In a review … Read more
1. Introduction: Sex and Gender in Space This two-paper project was conceptualized during the fourth general meeting of the NeuroGenderings Network, held in New York in March 2016. This international, transdisciplinary network aims to develop innovative and critical theoretical and methodological approaches toward the neuroscience and neuroculture of sex/gender and sexuality (see www.neurogenderings.wordpress.com). Grounded in … Read more
1. Introduction This is the second of a pair of papers aimed at rethinking research into spatial cognition and sex/gender as currently practiced in cognitive neuroscience. Our group came together because of our shared dissatisfaction with the methods and the consequences of existing research, which calls for discussions about scientific practices as well as their … Read more
