...New Modes of Analysis<subtitle>Neuroscience</subtitle> ...

... neuroscience neurobiological bodies ...

... neurobiology neuroscience psyche unconscious wound ...

... Audre Lorde social neuroscience oxytocin neuroplasticity neurofeminism ...

... laboratory ethnography behavioral neuroscience genetics pair bonding voles ...

... social neuroscience materialism complex embodiment feminist critiques of science affect theory ...

... The materialization of the mind and the rise of a plastic, social conception of the brain have rendered neuroscience relevant to understanding the self and society. This chapter situates brain knowledge in the context of a materialist turn in social thought. It argues that the social, plastic...

... of neuroscience are not sufficient to grasp the stakes of the biosocial, plastic brain. Rather, the entanglement of social structures and neurobiological bodies must be addressed as an onto-epistemological problem, a real and corporeal one. The book concludes by arguing for the complexity and specificity...

... This chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a neuroscience laboratory on whose research reports of the discovery of a monogamy gene were based. This chapter demonstrates how assumptions about human monogamy are naturalized and shape the notions of the normal (sexual/social/pair-bonded...