ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author's advisor, Norm Overly, took her to the Bergamo Curriculum Theorizing Conference in the fall of 1981 and there she began to see a life for herself as a critical feminist scholar. Bergamo was like dying and going to heaven: Critical theorists, phenomenologists, feminists, queers, race conscious White folks with a very sparse scattering of folks of color. She also benefitted immeasurably from being on the committee to organize the annual National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference in, again as she remember, 1981, at IU. Here she was introduced to feminist philosophy of science and nothing was ever the same. This feminist work on science, now called feminist science studies, combined with another stroke of luck during her IU years: Egon Guba was offering the first qualitative research courses. Between Guba and feminist science studies, she was "saved" from positivism and she converted accordingly, gratefully.
