Publications

Anthologies

DuBois, Z., Kaiser Trujillo, A., McCarthy, M. (2025)
Sex and Gender. Toward Transforming Scientific Practice. Strüngmann Forum Reports. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91371-6

Fitsch, H., Lysen, F., & Choudhury, S. (Eds.) (2022):
Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/Gender) Neuroscience. Editorial and Overview: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.797089/full
Table of content: www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13582/challenges-of-interdisciplinary-research-in-the-field-of-critical-sexgender-neuroscience/articles

Jordan-Young, R., Grossi, G., & Rippon, G. (2019).
Fifty shades of grey matter. Introduction to the special issue on NeuroGenderings, The Scholar and Feminist Online, 15. 2 Issue (Spring issue). https://sfonline.barnard.edu/neurogenderings/

Schmitz, S. & Höppner G. (2014) (Ed.).
Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses. Vienna: Zaglossus.

Dussauge, I. & Kaiser, A. (2012) (Guest Eds).:
Neuroscience and Sex/Gender. Neuroethics 5(3). Special Issue. Full publication here.

Bluhm, R., Jacobsen, J.A., Maibom, H. (Eds.) (2012)
Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Palgrave Macmillan. Doi:10.1057/9780230368385.

Books

Rippon, G., (2025)
The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story. UK edition

Grossi, G., Newman, A. J. (Ed.)(2023).
Changing Brains Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville. Routledge

Fitsch, Hannah (2022)
Die Schönheit des Denkens. Mathematisierung der Wahrnehmung am Beispiel der Computational Neurosciences. Transcript Verlag. Open Access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5756-2/die-schoenheit-des-denkens/?number=978-3-8394-5756-6

Rollins, O. (2021).
Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Rippon, Gina (2019).
The Gendered Brain (2019): The New Neuroscience That Shatters The Myth Of The Female Brain. The Bodley Head.

Joel, D., & Vikhanski, L. (2019).
Gender Mosaic. Beyond The Myth Of The Male And Female Brain Little, Brown Spark.

Jordan-Young, R., & Karkazis, K. (2019).
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography. Harvard University Press.

Roy, D. (2018).
Molecular Feminisms. Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. University of Washington Press. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROYMOL.html. Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90

Fine, C, (2017).
Testosterone-Rex. New York: WW Norton.

Pitts-Taylor, V. (2016) (Ed.).
Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism. NY: NYU Press.

Schmitz, Sigrid & Höppner, Grit (eds.). (2014).
Gendered NeuroCultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brains Discourses. Zaglossus: Vienna.

Fitsch, H. (2014).
… Dem Gehirn beim Denken zusehen? Sicht- und Sagbarkeiten
in der funktionellen Magnetresonanztomographie. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014

Jordan-Young, R. (2010).
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences. Harvard University Press.

Journals and book chapters

2025

Bentley, Vanessa A. (2025).
A feminist standpoint for cognitive neuroscience Synthese 206 (1):1-29. www.researchgate.net/publication/392873087_A_feminist_standpoint_for_cognitive_neuroscience

Rippon, Gina. (2025).
“Autism’s missing girls.“ New Scientist 266.3537 (2025): 32-35.

Lockhart, J.W., Fuentes, A., Rippon, G. and Eliot, L. (2025).
Not so binary or generalizable: Brain sex differences with artificial neural networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(2), p.e2411917121.

2024

Sanchis-Segura, C., Wilcox, R. R. (2024).
From means to meaning in the study of sex/gender differences and similarities. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 73, 1–16.

Purtschert, P., and Kaiser Trujillo, A. (2024).
The minute you strip away context, you have lost your ability to understand what is going on: A conversation with Anne Fausto-Sterling. The many futures of gender: Oral histories of feminist theory, 7, 1–22.

Picó-Pérez, M., Abalos Marco, E., Thurston, L., Ambrosi, V., Genon, S., Bryant, K.L., Belén Martínez, A., Ciccia, L., Kaiser Trujillo, A. (2024).
Researchers' sex/gender identity influences how sex/gender question is investigated in neuroscience: An example from an OHBM meeting. Brain Structure and Function, 229:741–758.

Rippon, G., Losse, K. and White, S., (2024).
Impression management in sex and gender neuroscience research reporting: the MAGIC guidelines. nature communications, 15(1), p.2826.

Rippon, G., (2024).
Impression management in research reporting: When effects are not really as pronounced as claimed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

121(49), p.e2421013121.

Rippon, G. (2024).
Differently different? A commentary on the emerging social cognitive neuroscience of female autism. Biol Sex Differ 15, 49 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-024-00621-3

Brown, A., Chung, S., Koscik, T., Vorland, C., Maney, D. (2024).
No compelling evidence of sex differences in brain maturation during COVID-19 lockdowns when the sexes are compared statistically. https://osf.io/xejk5/download/?format=pdf

Fine, C., Cope, L., Elliott, L., Matthews, C.A., Muscat, M., Polowyj, C., Warren, H.L., (2024).
Uncertainty of adolescent brain maturation sex difference claims. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(49), p.e2420724121.

2023

Kaiser Trujillo, A., Gajardo, V. A. (2023).
Estudios de Género en STEM en Chile y Alemania. Revista f@ro 37(1), 22-29.

Ciccia, L . (2023).
La invención de los sexos. Cómo la ciencia puso el binarismo en nuestros cerebros y cómo los feminismos pueden ayudarnos a salir de ahí. Revista de filosofía, vol. 55, núm. 155, pp. 274-281, 2023

Rippon, G., (2023).
Mind the gender gap: the social neuroscience of belonging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, p.1094830.

2022

Friedrichs, K., Kellmeyer, P. (2022).
Neurofeminism: Feminist critiques of research on sex/gender differences in the neurosciences. Eur J Neurosci. 2022 Dec; 56(11):5987-6002.

Fitsch H., Lysen F. and Choudhury, S. (2022)
Editorial: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research in the Field of Critical (Sex/Gender) Neuroscience. Front. Sociol., 12 January 2022. Volume 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.797089.

All articles: www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13582/challenges-of-interdisciplinary-research-in-the-field-of-critical-sexgender-neuroscience#articles

___ Caselles, E.L.: Epistemic Injustice in Brain Studies of (Trans)Gender Identity. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.608328

___ Duchesne, A., Kaiser Trujillo, A.: Reflections on Neurofeminism and Intersectionality Using Insights From Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.684412

___ Fausto-Sterling, A.: A Dynamic Systems Framework for Gender/Sex Development: From Sensory Input in Infancy to Subjective Certainty in Toddlerhood. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.613789

___ Fitsch, H.: Reflections on Binary Sex/Gender Categorization in Magnetic Resonance
Tomography and its Future Challenges. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.705106

___ Lawson-Boyd, E. and Meloni, M.: Gender Beneath the Skull: Agency, Trauma and Persisting Stereotypes in Neuroepigenetics. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.705106

___ Norrmén-Smith, I. O., Gómez-Carrillo, A. and Choudhury, S.: “Mombrain and Sticky DNA”: The Impacts of Neurobiological and Epigenetic Framings of Motherhood on Women’s Subjectivities. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.653160

___ Schmitz, S.: TechnoBrainBodies-in-Cultures: An Intersectional Case. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.651486

2021

Rollins, O. (2021a).
Towards an Antiracist (Neuro)Science. Nat. Hum. Behav. 5, 540–541. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01075-y

Rippon, G., Eliot, L., Genon, S., & Joel, D. (2021).
How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences. PLoS Biology, 19(5), e3001253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001253

Eliot, L., Ahmed, A., Khan, H., & Patel, J. (2021).
Dump the "dimorphism": Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-differences beyond size. Neuroscience Behavioral Review, 125, 667-697. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.026.

Rippon, G., (2021).
A window of opportunity: a neuroscience perspective on the gender stereotyping of science in the early years. Journal of Emergent Science, 1(20), pp.11-18.

2020

Fitsch, H., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser Trujillo, A., Kraus, C., Roy, D. and Schmitz, S. (2020).
Coalition-Making and the Practice of Feminist STS in the time of COVID-19. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience: Fall 2020 (Vol. 6, No. 2), pdf.

Sanchis-Segura, C., Aguirre, N., Cruz-Gómez, Á. J., and Forn, C. (2020).
Effects of Different Intracranial Volume Correction Methods on Univariate Sex Differences in Grey Matter Volume and Multivariate Sex Prediction. Scientific Rep. 10, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69361-9

Alon, N., Meilijson, I., Joel, D. (2020).
Testing the masculinization hypothesis in a sample of 23,935 human brains. bioRxiv 11/2020; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.09.373258

Lockhart, J. W. (2020).
‘A Large and Long Standing Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex.” In Far Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, edited by Louie Dean Valencia-García, 359–86. New York: Routledge.

2019

Bryant KL, Grossi G, Kaiser A. (2019).
Feminist interventions on the sex/gender question in neuroimaging research. Scholar and Feminist Online, Issue 15.2. http://sfonline.barnard.edu/neurogenderings/feminist-interventions-on-the-sex-gender-question-in-neuroimaging-research/

Fine, C., Joel, D., Rippon, G. (2019)
Eight Things You Need to Know About Sex, Gender, Brains, and Behavior: A Guide for Academics, Journalists, Parents, Gender Diversity Advocates, Social Justice Warriors, Tweeters, Facebookers, and Everyone Else. Scholar and Feminist Online, Issue 15.2.

http://sfonline.barnard.edu/neurogenderings/eight-things-you-need-to-know-about-sex-gender-brains-and-behavior-a-guide-for-academics-journalists-parents-gender-diversity-advocates-social-justice-warriors-tweeters-facebookers-and-ever/.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2019).
Gender/Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Identity Are in the Body: How Did They Get There?
doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1581883, www.annefaustosterling.com

2018

Fine, C. (2018).
Feminist science: who needs it? In: The Lancet. The art of medicine. Volume 392, Issue 10155, October 13, 2018, p. 1302-1303

Kaiser, A. (2018).
Estudios de género y producción del género por las neurociencias. 2018 In C. Mora, A. Kottow, M. Ceballos, V. Osses (Eds.), Investigación, Políticas y Programas de Género., p. 37 – 50

Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R. S., Joel, D., Tate, C. C., & van Anders, S. M. (2018).
The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary. American Psychologist.

2017

Rippon, G., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Joel, D., Fine, C. (2017).
Journal of Neuroscience Research policy on addressing sex as a biological variable: Comments, clarifications, and elaborations. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 10.1002/jnr.24045

2016

Bluhm, R., Hoffman, G. (2016).
Neurosexism and Neurofeminism, Philosophy Compass 11/11: 716–729.

Joel, D., & Fausto-Sterling, A. (2016)
Beyond sex differences: New approaches for thinking about variation in brain structure and function. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 371: 20150451.

Kaiser, A. (2016).
Gender Matters and Gender Materialities in the Brain. In Pitts-Taylor, V., (Ed.), Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism. New York: NYU Press.

Kraus, C. (2016).
“What Is the Feminist Critique of Neuroscience? A Call for Dissensus Studies.” In Neuroscience And Critique: Exploring the Limits Of the Neurological Turn, Editors J. De Vos. New York: Routledge, 100–116.

Kaiser, A., Schmitz, S. (2016).
Neuroscience, Brain Research, and Sexuality. In: Naples N., Wickramasinghe, M., and Wong Wai Ching, A. (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 1759-1764, DOI: 10.

Rippon, G., 2016.

The trouble with girls?. Psychologist, 29(12), pp.918-922.

Roy, D. (2016).
Neuroscience and Feminist Theory: A New Directions Essay. Signs: J. Women Cult. Soc. 41 (3), 531–552. doi:10.1086/684266

Roy, D., Subramaniam, B. (2016).
Matter in the Shadows: Feminist New Materialism and the Practices of Colonialism.
In Pitts-Taylor, V., (Ed.), Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism. New York: NYU Press.

Schmitz, S. (2016).
Materiality’s agency in technologized brainbodies. In Pitts-Taylor, V., (Ed.), Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism. New York: NYU Press. 182-203.

Schmitz, S. (2016). Science. In: Handbook Gender: Sources, Perspectives, and Methodologies (ed. by Renée C. Hoogland). Macmillan: MA, 347-362.

2015

Joel, D., et al. (2015). Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 112 (50), 15468–15473.

Gumy C. (2015).
Picturing Teenage Feelings. From Photographs of Facial Affect to fMRI Scans in the Construction of a Sexed Emotional Adolescent Brain. Brain and Mind in Society (BMS), EspacesTemps.net, http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/picturing-teenage-feelings/.

2014

Roy, D. (2014).
Developing a New Political Ecology: Neuroscience, Feminism, and the Case of the Estrogen Receptor. In NeuroCultures, Neurogenderings ed. by Sigrid Schmitz and Grit Höppner. Vienna: Zaglossus Press.

Fine, C. (2014).
His brain, her brain? Science 21 November 2014. Vol. 346 no. 6212 pp. 915-916
DOI: 10.1126/science.1262061
www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6212/915.short

Fine, C., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Rippon, G.; Joel, D. (2014).
Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain. Cerebrum, December 2014; http://dana.org/Cerebrum/2014/Reaction_to “Equal_≠_The_Same__Sex_Differences_in_the_Human_Brain”/#

Kraus, C., Preissmann, D., Bovet, E., Panese, F., Arminjon, M., Stücklin, N., Barras, V., Pidoux, V. (2014).

Brain, Mind and Society. EspacesTemps.net, Traverses, http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/brain-mind-and-society

Kuria, E. N. (2014).
Theorizing Race(ism) while NeuroGendering and NeuroCulturing In: Gendered Neurocultures Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses, Ed. Schmitz, S. and Höppner, G.. Zaglossus e.U.

Fitsch, H. (2014).
Scientifically assisted telepathy? Objektivierung und Standardisierung in der modernen Hirnforschung. In: Blame it on the Brain. Der Hype um die Neurowissenschaften. 47/2014, 5-7. Phase 2: Leipzig 2014

Gumy, C. (2014).
The Gendered Tools of the Construction of a Unisex Adolescent Brain. In Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses, eds. S. Schmitz et G. Höppner. Vienne: Zaglossus e. U. : 257-272.

Rippon, G., Jordan-Young, R., Kaiser, A., Fine, C. (2014).
Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: Key principles and implications for research design, analysis and interpretation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:650. August 2014. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00650.

Schmitz, S., Höppner, G. (2014).
Catching the Brain Today: From Neurofeminism to Gendered Neurocultures. In: Sigrid Schmitz & Grit Höppner (eds.): Gendered NeuroCultures. Zaglossus: Wien, 9-37.

Schmitz, S., Höppner G. (2014).
Feminist neuroscience: a critical review of contemporary brain research. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Special Issue Critical Neuroscience: The context and implications of human brain research, ed. by Suparna Choudhury, Jan Slaby & Daniel Margulies: doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00546.

Schmitz, S. (2014).
Feminist Approaches to Neurocultures. In: Wolfe, Charles (ed): Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy. N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan, 195-216.

2013

Bovet E., Kraus, C. Panese, F., Pidoux, V., Stücklin, N. Guest Eds. (2013).
Special issue on the brain sciences, Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances 7(3), 222 http://www.cairn.info/revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2013-3.htm

Dussauge, I. & Kaiser, A. (2012) (Guest Eds).
Special Issue: Neuroscience and Sex/Gender, Neuroethics 5(3).

Ferstl, E. C. & Kaiser, A. (2013).
Wie quantitative Methoden aus der Experimental- und Neuropsychologie einen Beitrag zur Geschlechterforschung leisten können. Gender, Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 3/2013, 9–25.

Fine, C., Jordan-Young, B., Kaiser, A., Rippon, G. (2013).
Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity … and the rigid problem of sex. Trends in Cognitive Science 17, 550-551.

Kaiser, A. (2013).
Zum (An)Erkennen von Gleichheit und Differenz in Geschlechterforschung und Neurowissenschaft – ein kritischer Vergleich. In Grisard, G., Jäger, U., König, T. (Eds.), Verschieden sein – Nachdenken über Geschlecht und Differenz. Sulzbach/Taunus: Helmer, 147-157.

2012

Joel, D. (2012). Genetic-gonadal-genitals sex (3G-sex) and the misconception of brain and gender, or, why 3G-males and 3G-females have intersex brains and intersex gender. Biology of Sex Differences, 3:27.

Roy, D. (2012).
Cosmopolitics and the Brain: The Co-Becoming of Practices in Feminism and Neuroscience. In Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science ed. by Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson and Heidi Maibom. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Roy, D. (2012).
Neuroethics, Gender and the Response to Difference. Neuroethics 5 (3), 217–230. doi:10.1007/s12152-011-9130-8

Dussauge, I. & Kaiser, A. (2012).
Neuroscience and Sex/Gender. Neuroethics 5(3), 211-216. Dussauge, I., Kaiser, A. Neuroscience and Sex/Gender. Neuroethics 5, 211–215 (2012). This paper was part of a special issue on neuroethics, which can be found here.

Dussauge, I. & Kaiser, A. (2012).
Re-queering the Brain. In R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, & H. Maibom (Eds.),
Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 121-144.

Kaiser, A. (2012).
Re-conceptualizing Sex and Gender in the Human Brain. Journal of Psychology 220(2), 130-136.

Kraus, C. (2012).
Critical studies of the sexed brain: a critique of what and for whom? Neuroethics 5(3): 247-259. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12152-011-9107-7#page-1

— 2013. Etudes critiques du cerveau: une critique de quoi et pour qui? French transl. Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances 7(3): 693-716. http://www.cairn.info/revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2013-3-page-693.htm

Kraus, C. (2012).
Linking neuroscience, medicine, gender and society through controversy and conflict analysis: A “dissensus framework” for feminist/queer brain science studies. In R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, & H. Maibom (Eds.), Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 193-215.

Grossi, G., Fine, C. (2012).
The role of fetal testosterone in the development of “the essential difference” between the sexes: Some essential issues. In R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, and H. Maibom (Eds.), Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. Palgrave-Macmillan.

Kuria, E. N. (2012).
The Challenge of Gender research in Neuroscience. In. Essays in Neuroscience and Political Theory; thinking the body politic, by F. Vander Valk. Routledge: 268-287

Kuria, E.N. (2012).
Experimenting with gender: How science constructs difference. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, Vol 4 (1): 48-61

Schmitz, S. (2012).
The Neuro-technological Cerebral Subject: Persistence of Implicit and Explicit Gender Norms in a Network of Change. Neuroethics 5 (3), 261–274, DOI 10.1007/s12152-011-9129-1.

Schmitz, S. (2012).
Entscheidungsraum Gehirn: Neurokultur, Neuroökonomie und das cerebrale Subjekt [Localizations of decisions in the brain: Neurocultures, neuro-economy and the cerebral subject]. In: Lettow, S. (Hrsg.): Bioökonomie. Die Lebenswissenschaften und die Bewirtschaftung der Körper. transcript: Bielefeld, 133-154.

2011

Roy, D. (2011).
Feminist Approaches to Inquiry in the Natural Sciences: Practices for the Lab.
In The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis ed. by Sharlene Hesse-Biber. London: Sage Publications, 313-330.

Kraus, C. (2011).
Am I My Brain or My Genitals? A Nature-Culture Controversy in the Hermaphrodite Debate from the Mid-1960s to the Late 1990s. Gesnerus. Swiss Journal for the History of Medicine and Sciences 68(1): 80-106.
http://www.gesnerus.ch/fileadmin/media/pdf/2011_1/080-106_Kraus.pdf

Jordan-Young, R., Rumiati, R. (2011).
Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience. Neuroethics, special issue on “Neurogenderings,” DOI 10.1007/s12152-011-9134-4 . Published online 23 September 2011 Hardwired for Sexism

Springer, K., Stellman, J., Jordan-Young, R. (2011).
Beyond a Catalogue of Differences: A Theoretical Frame and Good Practice Guidelines for Researching Sex/Gender in Human Health. Social Science and Medicine special issue on Gender and Health, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.033. Published online 15 June 2011.

Cheslack-Postava, K., Jordan-Young, R. (2011).
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Towards a Gendered Embodiment Model. Social Science and Medicine special issue on Gender and Health, 74(11):1667-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.013. Published online 12 July 2011.