These two very interesting women, and their websites, came to my attention recently via the WMST-L listserv.
Margaret (Peg) N. Rees
Jill S. Schneiderman
Both of them have some nifty publications listed on their websites. If you are looking for some thought-provoking reading on science and feminism, you could certainly make a good start here. Geology is a truly fascinating discipline that has, or could have, many obvious connections with feminist theory and analysis. Both fields have much to offer each other.
When we speak, too often, of "science" as if it were one thing, important distinctions get lost. What feminism has to offer geology - and vice versa - is very different from what the feminist project in physics might look like. Feminists have not always taken the time to attend to these distinctions between the sciences, or even between the sciences and engineering, yet the differences matter. I know a little (but only a very little) about the work of Peg Rees, enough to say that it's really ground-breaking (no pun intended, geologists). If this week goes a little more smoothly I'll write more about some of her work.
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