Lifting the Veil

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Based on her personal journey as a scientist, and drawing upon the experiences of contemporary scientists, Linda Jean Shepherd, Ph.D. explores how valuing feminine qualities of thinking and behavior can enrich the scientific process, the personal lives of scientists, and the place of science in the human community. Science is constantly transforming our lives and the world we live in, yet science itself is also being transformed. We must now reclaim the feminine attributes that were discarded in the development of Western science, including feeling, nurturing, receptivity, subjectivity, cooperation, relatedness, and intuition. This book is not just about women working as scientists, but also about how male scientists use different approaches like intuition to solve problems with methods that were traditionally regarded as feminine ways of knowing and thinking. A fundamentally different science will result when we see Nature as a lover rather than a slave. Imagine what fruit this kind of science would produce.