“Women and non-white, working-class and poor men have largely been outside the process of science-making. Though we have been described by scientists, by and large we have not been the describers and definers of scientific reality. We have not formulated the questions scientists ask, nor have we answered them. This undoubtedly has affected the content of science, but it has also affected the social context and the ambience in which science is done.”
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
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Ruth Hubbard, 92, professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship position in biology.
Dr. Hubbard was an antiwar activist and a prominent feminist critic of science.
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