Feminist and queer repoliticizations of the brain

Dussauge, Isabelle; Kaiser, Anelis (2013). Feminist and queer repoliticizations of the brain. Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 7(3), pp. 667-692. Cairn 10.3917/rac.020.0667

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The historical relationship between biology and feminist politics is one of tensions and contradictions. Today, this is especially flagrant in the present golden age of neuroscience, when the older arguments of superiority of masculinity over femininity, the inevitability of sexual difference, and the dominance of heterosexuality, are formulated in terms of the brain. In this paper, we examine the specific entanglements of brain sciences and feminism and detect three main directions of this endeavour. “Destabilizations”, “reconstructions”, and “recontextualizations” are the conflictive but also sometimes productive ways these two very different fields of research and political activism interact with each other, we argue. We conclude this article by thinking about sociological configurations of involvements in the political economy of neuroscience.

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