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From: bhv@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Bronis Vidugiris)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Men barred from primatology conference
Message-ID: <1990Dec01.005536.9846@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 90 00:55:36 GMT
References: <1061@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <15147@cs.utexas.edu> <8283@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: bhv@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Bronis Vidugiris)
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In article <8283@dog.ee.lbl.gov> austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern) writes:
)In article <15147@cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs (Russell Turpin) writes:

)I'm not particularly defending the conference organizers, but there's
)some context here that I haven't seen on the net.
)
)There's a fairly well developed field of feminist theory of science
)(Evelyn Fox-Keller is the best known author, but there are others),
)which looks at the question, essentially, of how our own ideas of
)gender influence what we think we see when we observe the world.
)Primatology is the discipline that is most frequently used as an
)example in these critiques.

)The point (The point of people like Fox-Keller, that is; I'm reporting
)the claim, not advocating it, since I lack the expertise to judge it.)
)is that when scientists look at social relations in non-human
)primates, what they see often depends on their ideology of social
)relations in humans.

To me, this sounds like a good argument for the diversity of gender of
scientists, especially those who are looking at issues such as social
relationships.


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