Hi folks!
On my sabbatical (gloat) I'm doing a lot of reading in the
history of the second wave of feminism. When the second wave was
actually happening, I was busy taking parasitology and
remember seeing the campus feminists as living in a different
world -- they thought my experiences were pretty irrelevant,
as well. It reminded me of my father's joke that by the height
of the Vietnam war protests in Berkely things got so extreme
that 'even the chemists' noticed something was going on ...
Anyway, I've begun to wonder about the experiences women studying
science had with feminism. Did second-wave feminism change your
view of the world, or did the status associated with doing
science insulate you as a student from the kinds of issues that
feminism addressed? At what point did feminism begin to make sense
to you, or hasn't it yet?
Pat Bowne
