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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Women's and Gender Studies at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Looking Back, Looking Forward by an authorized administrator of Denison Digital Commons. • • •from Denison University Public Affairs Office • Box A • Granville, Ohio 43023 • 614-587-6266 October 27, 1989 Ref: 89/90-28 For Release: Immediately Contact: Leslie Ringle '90 Stewart B. Dyke HARVARD BIOLOGIST TO EXPLORE GENDER IDEOLOGY IN DU TALK

GRANVILLE Harvard Professor of Ruth Hubbard will present an All-College Convocation at 8 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 9) in

Denison University's Swasey Chapel. Sponsored by the Conrad E. Ronneberg Lectureship, her address on "Gender Ideology and the Biology of Sex Differences," is free and open to the public. An authority on the politics of health care and a variety of health issues, Hubbard has recently concentrated her work on issues of particular relevance to women. Another major focus of her current scholarship is in the sociology of science, where she has tried to document the ways in which the questions and answers in science are shaped by the gender, race and class of scientists and by the social institutions within which they operate.

Hubbard originally became affiliated with Harvard in 1953 as a research fellow. She was promoted to research associate in 1958, lecturer in 1968 and currently holds the title of professor of biology, a position she earned in 1974. in addition to editing several books including "Women's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality," Hubbard has contributed to more than 100 articles on science and women's issues that have appeared in professional journals and popular magazines. Hubbard has held a number of prestigious fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship to research at the Carlesberg

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Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1952-53. A member of the National Women's Health Network since 1979, Hubbard also serves on the executive council of the Committee for Responsible Genetics. She received the Paul Karrer Medal from the University of Zurich in 1967. A native of Vienna, ', Hubbard graduated with a bachelor's degree in biochemical sciences in 1944 from , where she returned to earn her doctorate in 1950. The Ronneberg Lectureship was established in 1971 by the professor emeritus of chemistry "to bring to the campus, eventually twice each college generation, an outstanding scientist to lecture on broad topics." Ronneberg, a noted scientist in his own right, taught at Denison from 1946-67 and served as a chemistry department chair from 1946-58. He also served as director of civil defense for the state of Ohio and participated in national defense and mobilization efforts in the 1950's concerned with chemical and biological warfare. He became an emeritus professor in 1959 but continued to teach until 1967. Ronneberg died in April 1984. -DU-

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Swasey Chapel, Granville, Ohio All-College Convocation: "Gender Ideology and the Biology of Sex Differences" featuring Harvard Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard; 8 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 9). Free. Call 614/587-6281 for more information. RUTH HUBBARD

Professor of Biology,

speaking on

"GENDER IDEOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGY OF SEX DIFFERENCES"

Thursday, November 9, 1989

8:00 p.m.

Swasey Chapel

Ronneberg Lectureship, Women's Studies, All College-Convocations Ruth Hubbard was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria where she received her

early education. She came to the United States in 1938, attended high school in

Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1944, with an

A.B. in Biochemical Sciences. After working a few years in research and clinical

laboratories, she returned to Radcliffe as a graduate student and received a

Ph.D. in Biology in 1950. She held a U.S. Public Health Service fellowship to do

research at University College Hospital Medical School in London, England in

1948-49 and a Guggenheim Fellowship to work at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copen-

hagen, Denmark in 1952-53. She became a Research Fellow at Harvard University in

1953, Research Associate in 1958, Lecturer in 1968, and finally Professor of

Biology in 1974. She has made important contributions to the understanding of

the and photochemistry of vision in vertebrates and invertebrates, a

field in which she has published numerous scientific papers and review articles.

In recent years she has worked, written and lectured on the politics of health

care and on a variety of health issues, especially issues of relevance to women.

Another major focus of her interest at present is in the sociology of science, where she has tried to document the ways in which the questions and answers in science are shaped by the sex, race and class of scientists and by the social

institutions within which they operate. She has published many articles in books, professional journals and popular magazines and has edited several books:

R. Hubbard, M.S. Henifin and B. Fried, eds., Women Look at Biology Looking at

Women (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1979); R. Hubbard and M. Lowe, eds., Genes and

Gender II: Pitfalls in Research on Sex and Gender (New York: Gordian Press,

1979); R. Hubbard, M.S. Henifin, and B. Fried, eds., Biological Woman - The

Convenient Myth (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1982); M. Lowe and R. Hubbard, eds.,

Woman's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality (New York: Pergamon, 1983). Education: A.B., Radcliffe College, 1944; Ph.D., Radcliffe College, 1950.

Professional employment: Research Assistant, under contract to Army Engineer Board, 1944-45. Laboratory Technician, Tennessee State Public Health Service, 1945-46. Harvard University: Teaching Fellow, 1946-48; Research Assistant, 1946-49; Research Fellow, 1950-52, 1954-58; Research Associate 1958-74; Lecturer, 1968-74; Professor of Biology, 1974- .

Fellowships: United States Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellow, University College Hospital Medical School, London, England, 1948-49; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1952-53.

Honorary Societies: Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professional Societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Biological Chemists, Society of General Physiologists, Society of Photobiology, National Women's Studies Association.

Awards: Paul Karrer Medal from the University of Zurich, jointly with .

Member, Editorial Board, Experimental Eye Research, 1966-72; Associate Editor, Photochemistry and Photobiology, 1967-72.

Member of the Corporation of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1971- ; Trustee, 1973-78.

Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Winter, 1972.

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation, 1973- ; Board of Trustees. The Learning Project, Boston, 1973-76; Advisory Board, Boston-Cambridge Ministry in Higher Education 1975- ; National Women's Health Network, 1979- ; Menopause Collective, Boston, 1981- ; Advisory Board, Boston Women's Fund, 1983- ; Member, Executive Council, Committee for Responsible Genetics, 1982- . Counsellor, Pregnancy Counselling Service, Boston, 1972-74; Consultant, Boston Women's Healthbook Collective, 1982- .

Author, numerous publications in books, professional journals and popular magazines.

Editor of several collections of scientific and feminist writing. publications - Kubbard - 6

Hubbard, R., translation of F. Boll, On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Retina, Vision Res. 17, 12U9-12557 197?

Hubbard, Re and Wald, G., translation of ¥. KUhne, Chemical. Processes in the Retina, Vision Reso 17, 1269-1316, 1977

Hubbard, R., The case against test-tube babies, The Boston Globe, irov. 29, 1978, p. 25 Hubbard, R., Change for the Worse, The Sciences 18, #7, Sept. 1978, p. 3

Hubbard, R., Science against People? Trends in Biochem. Sci. _3_» ''193-^» 1978 Hubbard, R., From Termite to Human Behavior, Psychology Today 12, #5» Oct. 1978, pp. 124-134 (Review of On Human Mature by S.O. Wilson) Hubbard, R., in Academia: Its Problematic and Problems, Ann. N..Y.. Acad. Sci. 323 (Expanding the Role of Women in the Sciences, Anne 14. Briscoe and Sheila M. Pfafflin, edsTj, 2^9-256, 1979

Hubbard, R. and M. Lowe, Biology Is -tot Destiny, Sojoumer 5. #2, Oct. 1979, PP. ^, 25 Hubbard, R., M.S. Henifin and 3. Fried, eds,, Women Look at Biology Looking at Women; A Gollection of Feminist Gritic[ues (Cambridge, MA: Schenkinan Publishing Co., 19791

Hubbard R., Have Only Men Evolved? in Women Look at Biology Looking at Women, R. Hubbard, M.S. Henifin and B. Fried, edsT^Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1979), pp. 7~35 Hubbard, R. and M. Lowe, eds., Genes and Gender II; Pitfalls in Research on Sex and Gender (Staten Island, :,;.Y.: Gordian Press, 1979~5 Hubbard, R. and M. Lowe, Introduction, in Genes and Gender II; Pitfalls in Research on Sex and Gender, R. Hubbard and M. Lowe, eds. t,Staten Island, N.Y.: Gordian Press, 1979), pp. 9-3^ Lowe, M, and R. Hubbard, and Biosociology: Can Science Prove the Biological Basis of Sex Differences in Behavior? in Genes and Gender II; Pitfalls in Research on Sex and Gender (Staten Island, rT.Y.j Gordian Press, 1979), pp. 91-112 ~~~" ~ " Lowe, M, and R. Hubbard, Conclusions, in Genes and Gender II; Pitfalls in Research on Sex and Gender (Staten Island, ':!.!.: Gordian Press, 1979), PP. 1^3-152 Hubbard, R,, Reflections on the story of the double helix, Women's Stud. Int. Quart. 2, 261-273, 1979 Hubbard, R., introductory Zssay: The Many Faces of Ideology, in Ideology of/in the ,'atural Sciences, H. Rose and S. Rose, eds. (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 19g0), pp. IX-XXYI Publications - Hubbard - 2.

Hubbard, R., The Story of DNA, in Structures of Matter and Patterns in Science, M. Senechal, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1980), pp. 117-138 Hubbard, R., Test-Tube Babies: Solution or Problem? Technology Review 82, #5, March/April, 1980, pp. 10-12 Hubbard, R. and N. Krieger, The Pill and the Pendulum, Technology Review 82, #8, August/Sept., 1980, 12-13 (Review of The Politics of Contra- ception by C. Djerassi) Hubbard, R., review of The Whisperings Within by David Barash, Human Ethology Newsletter #28. Winter 1980, pp. 14-16

Hubbard, R., Implications of Pregnancy Interventions, Sojourner 6, #9» May, 1981, pp. 10, 26 Hubbard, R., The Emperor doesn't wear any Cloths: The Impact of Feminism on Biology, in Men's Studies Modified; The Impact of Feminism on the Academic Disciplines, D. Spender, ed., (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 198l), pp. 213-235 Hubbard, R., The Case Against In Vitro Fertilization and Implantation, in The Custom-Made Child? Women-Centered Perspectives, H.B. Holmes, ?. B. Hoskins and M. Gross, eds., (Clifton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1981), pp. 259-262 Hubbard, R., The Theory and Practice of Genetic Reductionism — From Mendel's Laws to Genetic Engineering, in Towards a_ Liberatory Biology, The Dialectics of Biology Group, S. Rose, ed.(London: Allison and Busby, 1982), pp. 62-78 Hubbard, R., Some Practical and Ethical Constraints on Genetic Decisions about Childbearing, in Science and Morality! ..'ew Directions in Bio- ethics, D. Teichler-Zallen and C.D. Clements, eds. (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982), pp. 37-^7

Hubbard, R., Embryo and Gene Manipulation, Society 19, #4, May/June, 1982,' pp". 47-50.

Hubbard, R., The Fetus as Patient, Ms, October, 1982, pp. 28, 32

Hubbard, R., Legal and Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy, Women's Rights Law Reporter 7, #3, Spring 1982, pp. 201-227

Hubbard, R. , M.S. Henifin and Barbara Fried, eds., Biological Woman — The Convenient Myth (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1982)

Hubbard, R. , Have Only Men Evolved? in Hubard, R., M.S. Henifin and B. Fried, eds. , Biological Woman — The Convenient Myth (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1982), pp. 17-46

Hubbard, R. , Human Embryo and Gene Manipulation, 15, #3, May/June 1983, pp. 24-27 * ~~ Publications - Hubbard - 8

Hubbard, R., Human Embryo and Gene Manipulation, Radcliffe Quarterly, December 1983, pp. 13-15 ~ "

Hubbard, R., Have Only Men Evolved?, in Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka, eds., Discovering Reality (Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel Publishing Co., 1983), pp. 45-69

Lowe, M. and Hubbard, R., eds., Woman's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality (Oxford/NewYork: Pergamon Press, 1983)

Hubbard, R., Social Effects of Some Contemporary Myths About Women, in Lowe, M. and R. Hubbard, eds., Woman's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality (Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press, 1983), pp. 1-8

Hubbard, R., Foreword, in Rothschild, J. ed., Machina ex Pea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology (Oxford/New York; Pergamon Press, 1983), pp. VII-VIII

Henifin, M.S. and R. Hubbard, Genetic Screening in the Workplace, GeneWATCH 1, #1, Nov/Dec 1983, pp. 5-9 •

Hubbard, R., Should Professional Women Be Like Professional Men? in Haas, V.B. and C.C. Perrucci, eds., Women in Scientific and Eng- ineering Professions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984), pp. 205-211

Hubbard, R., "Fetal Rights" and the New Eugenics, Science for the People JL6_, #2, March/April 1984, pp. 7-9, 27-29 "

Hubbard, R., Caring for Baby Doe, Ms, May 1984, pp. 84-88, 165

Hubbard, R. , Personal Courage Is Not Enough: Some Hazards of Childbearing in the 1980s, in Arditti, R., R. Duelli Klein and S. Minden, eds. Test-Tube Women: What Future for_Motherhood? (London/Boston: Pandora Press, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 331-355

Hubbard, R. and M.S. Henifin, Genetic Screening of Prospective Parents and of Workers: Some Scientific and Social Issues, in Humber, J.M. and R.F. Almeder, eds., Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1984 (Clifton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1984), 93-120 " ~

Hubbard, R., Review of Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strat- egies to 1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 54, No. 4, 1984, pp. 465-468.

Hubbard, R., with Wendy Sanford, New Reproductive Technologies, in The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), pp. 317-324

Hubbard, R., Reflections of a Feminist Biologist on Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Women's Studies Quarterly 12, #4, 2-5, Winter 1984 ~ " ~ " ~ '' Publications - Hubbard - 9

Hubbard, R., Review of Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technol- pgies and Social Policy by Robert H. Blank (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984), Politics and the Life Sciences _3, 194-197, 1985

Hubbard, R., Foreword, in Louise Michele Newman, ed., Men's Ideas/ Women 's Realities: Popular Science, 1870-1915 (Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press, 1985), pp. XIII-XVIII

Hubbard, R., Putting Genes In Their Place, review of Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by R.C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin (New York: Pantheon, 1984), The Women's Review of Books, Vol. II, No. 4, January 1985, pp. 7-8

Hubbard, R., There Is No "Natural" Human Sexuality, Sojourner 10 No. 6, April 1985, pp. 12-13 —~ '

Hubbard, R. and M.S. Henifin, Genetic Screening of Prospective Parents and of Workers: Some Scientific and Social Issues, Int. Jour, of Health Serv. 15, 231-251, 1985

Duelli Klein, R., G. Corea, and R. Hubbard, German Women Say NO to Gene and Reproductive Technologies: Reflections on a Conference in Bonn, West Germany, April 19-21, 1985, Women's Studies Inter- national Forum 8_ (3), I-IV, 1985 " ' ~ '

Hubbard, R., Prenatal Diagnosis and Eugenic Ideology, Women's Studies International Forum 8^ (6), 567-576, 1985

Hubbard, R. , Eugenics and Prenatal Testing, Int. Jour. Health Serv. _1_6_ (2) 227-242, 1986 "" ""

Hubbard, R., Reflections on My Life as a Scientist, Radical Teacher, January 1986, pp. 3-7

Hubbard, R., Facts and Feminism: Thoughts on the Masculinity of Natural Science, Science for the People 18, #2, March/April 1986, pp. 16-20, 26 " " '""" ~"""~ ""

Hubbard, R., Biological Theories as Myths of Gender (Review of Myths of Gender:Biological Theories about Women and Men, by Anne Fausto- Sterling) , Sojourner 12, #2, October 1986, p. 39

Hubbard, R., Toward Women's Liberation (Review of Science and Gender, by Ruth Bleier), Science and Nature Nos. 7/8, 1986, pp. 134-137

Gillespie, R.M. and R. Hubbard, Contraception in Context, Frontiers _9 (1), 3-8, 1986

Hubbard, R., Review of Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and_ Men by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Am. J^ Sociol. 92 (4), 1033-1035, 1987 Publications - Hubbard - 10

Hubbard, R., Women, Biology and Destiny, review of Biological Politics: Feminist and Anti-feminist Perspectives by Janet Sayers (London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982), New Ideas in Psychol. ^_, 383-387, 1986

Hubbard, R., N. Wilker and M. Saxton, Of Fetuses and Women, Sojourner 12, #8, April 1987, pp. 6-7

Hubbard, R., A Tale of Three Countries, review of Feminist Approaches to Science, edited by Ruth Bleier (NY: Pergamon, 1986); Women, Femin- ism and Biology by Lynda Birke (NY:Methuen, 1986); and Femmes et/ Women and Sciences, edited by Karen Messing, Maria de Koninck and Lesley Lee (Toronto: RFR/DRF 15, #3, Nov. 1986), The Women's Review of Books, Vol. IV, No. 8, May 1987, pp. 15-17 " "" "

Hubbard, R., Review of Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? edited by The Ciba Foundation (London and New York: Tavistock 1986), Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1987, pp. 18-19

Hubbard, R., A Birthmother is a Birthmother is a..., Sojourner 13, #1, September 1987, pp. 21-22

Hubbard, R., Left Out of the New Technology Debate, Science for the People 19, #5, September/October 1987

Hubbard, R., Constructing Sex Difference, New Literary History 19, #1, Autumn 1987, pp. 129-134

Hubbard, R., Test-Tube Babies: Solution or Problem? In Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader, Annette T. Rottenberg, ed., 2nd Edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988), pp. 411-415

Hubbard, R., Science, Facts, and Feminism, Hypatia 3, #1, Spring 1988, PP- 5-17 '

Hubbard, R., Some Thoughts about the Masculinity of the Natural Sciences, in Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge, Mary McCanney Gergen, ed., (New York: New York University Press, 1988), pp. 1-15

Hubbard, R. and S. Krimsky, The Patented Mouse, Genewatch 5, #1, Jan/Feb 1988, pp. 6-7 — ~

Hubbard, R., A Feminist Views Prenatal Diagnosis, Perspectives in Genetic Counseling 10, #2, Summer 1988, pp. 1&12 "

Henifin, Mary Sue, Ruth Hubbard, and Judy _.Norsigian, Prenatal Screening, Reproductive Laws for the 1990s: A Briefing Handbook, Nadine Taub and Sherrill Cohen, eds., Women's Rights Litigation Clinic, School of Law-Newark, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 1988, pp. 127-154

Hubbard, R., Eugenics: New Tools, Old Ideas, Women and Health 13, Nos.1/2, 1988, pp. 225-235 " Publications - Hubbard - 11

Hubbard, R. , Eugenics: New Tools, Old Ideas, in Embryos, Ethics, and Women' s Rights: Exploring the New Reproductive Technologies, Elaine Hoffman Baruch, Amadeo F. D'Adamo, and Joni Seager, eds., (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1988), pp. 225-235

Hubbard, R. and M. Randall, The Shape of Red: Insider/Outsider Reflections (San Francisco and Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1988)

Krimsky, S. and R. Hubbard, "4 needed rules for fetal tissue use." The Boston Globe, vol. 235, #3, January 3, 1989

M.S. Henifin, R. Hubbard and J. Norsigian, Position Paper: Prenatal Screening, in Reproductive Laws for the 1990s, Sherrill Cohen and Nadine Taub, eds., (Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1989), pp. 155-183