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CICCIA, Lucía. Behavioral Events: Mental States, Body, and Gender. Debate fem. [online]. 2022, vol.63, pp.3-29.  Epub 02-Mayo-2023. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2022.63.2311.

Various disciplines and feminist epistemologies have highlighted the deterministic biases permeating the predominant scientific discourse. Nevertheless, I consider that none of the criticisms problematizes the cause-effect logic structuring physical and symbolic gender relations. In this respect it is naturalized a temporal linearity is that prioritizes biological aspects over typically gendered behaviors, such as aggression and competition. This naturalization results from insufficiently problematizing the mind-body relationship in Gender Studies. I propose a cross between Donald Davidson’s concept of event and anomalous monism and certain contributions from the new feminist materialisms, and argue that there is a temporal synchronization between our biological and psychological states. At the same time, I highlight the irreducibility of mental aspects. I conclude that interpreting gendered behaviors in this way permits an ontology of the body that dilutes the cause-effect logic, an androcentric logic inherited from modern science and predicated on an inherently cis-Heteronormative biologism.

Palabras llave : Cause-effect logic; Feminist epistemology; Events-behavior.

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