ABSTRACT
When Chris Corrin tried to establish a new Honours option in ‘Feminist Thought and Political Theory’, her Head of Department wrote to her, suggesting that it might be that she was ‘too politically committed to teach a course in feminist theory in a completely neutral manner, such as those on Fascism[!] and Liberalism’, and if this were the case then she should disqualify herself. It seemed to Chris that, since she came ‘out’ at work, many of her colleagues (all the other twelve members of academic staff are male) had worked hard to find ‘bias’ in her work. Sheila Brodie and Jennifer Marchbank found that they too could draw on such experiences. Chris felt that the atmosphere of working as a lesbian in academia seemed different in Scotland than in England and this seemed a prime question which required investigation.
