Pam and all,
There is an excellent resource on Third Wave feminism at
http://www.io.com/~wwwave/
I know that at least two of the authors are female scientists that I have
interacted with on another list.
Happy reading,
Linnea
Pamela Norton wrote:
> In article <3a5df3f9$0$63731$272ea4a1 at news.execpc.com>, patricia bowne
> <pbowne at execpc.com> wrote:
>> > 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
>> Pat,
>> I'm sorry, but could you enlighten this ignorant scientist as to the
> just what constitutes the second wave of feminism? Is the first wave
> the early part of the 20th century, the campaign for universal
> suffrage, and the second wave the 60s? Is there a third wave? Is the
> fact that I even have to ask these questions clear evidence that I'm a
> sterotypical scientist, out of touch with the real world? :-) Oh and
> BTY, can you tell us a bit more about what you have been reading?
>> Thanks,
>> Pam
>> --
> Pamela A. Norton, Ph.D.
> Jefferson Center for Biomedical Research
> Thomas Jefferson University
>pamela.norton at mail.tju.edu
