connecting gender and emotion in the production of (neuro)scientific knowledge

Abstract

Starting from research carried out among neuroscientists of a university laboratory, this article seeks to enter the daily processes of knowledge production about the so-called neurobiology of behavior and emotions. It is a network of researchers who, in alliance with psychiatrists, began to investigate posttraumatic stress disorder and stress and aversive situations in general – taking college students, military men and psychiatric patients as subjects of their experiments. The article approaches different ethnographic contexts involving this network of scientists in order to understand the ways of articulation between emotions, violence and gender in the delineation of experimental and theoretical paradigms, as well as the politics of traumatic memory.