ABSTRACT

Many students in social sciences (about two-thirds are women) appear to have an aversion to an explicit feminist view of science and therapy. They argue that the process of women’s emancipation has been completed, that everyone has the same opportunities, and that discrimination against women has disappeared. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking. Female students hope they will not be confronted with difficult choices and ambivalences stemming from their womanhood. Nowadays, women certainly have more options in deciding how they want to shape their lives. However, this does not mean that more subtle mechanisms have lost their impact.