Randi,
To get more information on women in science, you might try contacting
the Northwest Center for Research on Women at the University of
Washington, Seattle. They specialize in studying women in the "hard"
sciences. Director is Dr. Angela Ginorio, and the Center's phone
number is 206-543-9531.
Holly Schneider Ross
> While taking Environmental Ethics, I asked my professor why we didn't read
> more from womyn authors. He responded that it is only recently that womyn
> have been able to write about such things. He added that now womyn are
> just beginning to move up un academia and there work respected. He
> comforted me by saying that there will be more included by womyn in the
> next few years. My quess is that this professor is in his early to mid
> thirties.
>
> I located a web site which has compiled a list of womyn philosophers and
> their works. Much to the creators' credit, there is also a search engine.
> I entered the word "environment" and recieved 57 references dating from
> 1961 to 1995. The site is:
>
> http://macserver.ius.indiana.edu.h...ninPhilosophy
>
> Another assignment in my Environmental Science required us to find a
> science article from a popular magazine and critique it for presentation
> of "hard scientific fact." Wanting to find something specific to womyn
> was a difficult task using basic keyword searches. Through an article in
> a Social Science journal I was able to locate an article in Ms. Magazine
> from the references. I was also able to locate other articles, though
> from "mainstream popular" magazines, which also dealt with my topic.
>
> My main point is that whenever I have wanted to find materials
> specifically concerning womyn's issues I have had to dig. This may not be
> true in other areas of the world or with research tools not available at
> my school. There seems to be a lot more available in the social sciences,
> health (especially reproduction), and psychology being printed recently.
> I have also decided to focus on references which maintain a feminist
> perspective, especially difficult in the "hard" sciences. Where older
> books or articles are cited, I do an author search for more recent
> writings. Unfortunately, I have noticed that many womyn (though not all)
> take on more "mainstream" topics as their careers advance. I guess that
> leaves room for another generation.
>
> The United Nations, and many of its organizations, has been very rich in
> objective fact and full of additional references.
>
> Randi Zimmerman
>
>
>
>
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Holly Schneider Ross
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Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Task Force
Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:05:47 -0400
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Subject: Congressional Research Service Reports available
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS AVAILABLE
Hello,
I would like to invite you to visit the Committee for the National
Institute for the Environment's (CNIE) web site.
http://www.cnie.org
We are developing a prototype National Library for the Environment, an
on-line source of environmental information. The address is:
http://www.cnie.org/nle
To activate the project, the CNIE has put on-line about 200 full-text U.S.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on environmental issues. Our
site has reports covering a range of environmental topics including:
Agency Profiles Air
Biodiversity Climate
Energy Forestry
Information Sources International
Legislation Marine
Mining Pesticides
Pollution--General Population
Public Lands Regulatory Reform
Risk Assessment Science & Tech.
Stratospheric Ozone Trade, Taxes & Econ.
Transportation Resources--General
Waste Management Water Quality
Wetland & Aquatic
CRS, part of the United States Library of Congress, provides nonpartisan
information on any subject of interest to Congress. CRS products undergo
careful review for accuracy, thoroughness, technical soundness, balance,
nonpartisanship and objectivity.
The Committee for the National Institute for the Environment is a nonprofit
organization with broad support from the scientific, environmental, state
and local government, and business communities. Its mission is to improve
the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues through
institutional reform of the federal government and the creation of a
nonregulatory science agency known as the National Institute for the
Environment.
Please feel free to let me know what you think of our web site.
Juge Gregg
Director, Academic Relations
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Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
1725 K Street, NW Suite 212 PHONE 202-628-4303
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