On Geschlecht in Brain Science Experiments

While in neuroscience Geschlecht (sex/gender) is a hard and rarely contested variable, in gender studies, Geschlecht is a social phenomenon; a result and a facet of human action and social structures – in short: a social construct. Since my dissertation is a `gap-work` between this epistemologically different disciplines, I would like to focus on some difficulties a gender studies-oriented scientist can encounter while operating experimentally with Geschlecht. Furthermore, I will pinpoint the experimental conditions, paradigms and variables of interest in the brain lab. How is the neuroscientific experiment implemented? Which items are measured in the experiment? What do the results show? Rather than attempting a deconstruction of Geschlecht, this paper is a hard-to-ask-question. For on the one hand, the paper is committed to scientific explanation, whilst on the other, it takes the post-butlerian era seriously.