Additions

I wanted to say one more thing about our assignment; however, I would not like this to be considered as part of our assignment since it would put me way over the word limit. But I think it's an interesting thought to consider.
As I was reading our assigned reading for this past week, this quote stuck out to me (naturally, after Human Rights and Educational Justice). Halbwachs was speaking about women artists versus men artists:
"Women etchers... have typically lower survival value [as artists] because they lack many of the positive traits that enhance the reputations of their male colleagues."
Regardless of whether you (or I) consider yourself a feminist or not, I argue that this quote is relevant to the history of biological research. It is the case, in biology, that most women did not lack the traits of their male counterparts when it came to scientific studies and research - they were merely oppressed or used for their research, and all credit was given to the male scientist. For example, Rosalind Franklin was best known for her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA. Without her, DNA would not have been discovered until much later on. However, she did not get any credit for her discovery because Crick and Watson used her data and all that she had determined to formulate a hypothesis regarding the double helix structure of DNA, and did not give her credit though it was her that indeed determined the structure of DNA. When word got out that she was the original discoverer, it was too late - she had died of complications of ovarian cancer and Crick and Watson got the Nobel Prize (they couldn't give it to someone who is deceased). There are many other examples of this throughout history (read Into the Jungle), and I argue the point that these women artists had plenty of positive traits and were put down because they were women.