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Wendy Wickwire Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Wendy Wickwire, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Wickwire talks about her interdisciplinary background and how she began studying indigenous history in BC. Wickwire also talks about her experience doing field research, her relationships with research participants, and how she approaches her research in order to minimize western bias.

Ursula Franklin Interview

Interview with physicist, Dr. Ursula Franklin for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ainley asks about her perspective on western science, her experience attending university in Berlin during WW2, and the work she did at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Research Foundation. Franklin also discusses about her role in the organization, Voice of Women, in the 1960s and how she balanced being a mother while conducting her academic work.

Pat Davitt & Anne Roberts Interview

Interview with Pat Davitt and Anne Roberts about two of their late colleagues, Maggie Benston and Kathleen Gough, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Kathleen Gough’s political activism and academic career in anthropology, including but not limited to, the organizing of an International Women’s Conference in the 1960s with the organization, Voice of Women. Also discussed were Kathleen’s chronic health issues, and her final battle with cancer.

In the second part of the interview, Davitt and Roberts are asked about Maggie Benston, particularly her time working at SFU and the difficulties she faced in the male-dominated chemistry department, and her later work towards starting a women studies program. The interviewees also talk about Maggie’s relationship with her twin sister Marian.

Nancy J. Turner Interview

Interview with ethnobotanist, Dr. Nancy Turner, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Turner talks about her family and early academic career in botany, and explains how she started doing ethnobotany. Turner also discusses her research interests and experiences collaborating with linguists, and indigenous partners to produce plant guides. Ainley and Turner discuss historical conceptions of Western science in contrast with indigenous knowledge.

Marian Lowe Interview

Interview with biologist and social activist, Dr. Marian Lowe, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Lowe’s background growing up in a small working class town with her twin sister Maggie Benston. Lowe talks about the pressure of gender roles while growing up, and later the sexism they both faced working in post-secondary institutions, including their interactions with male colleagues and being passed over for positions. Lowe also explains Maggie’s role in the women’s movement and her chemistry research at SFU.

Margaret Wilson-Bell Interview

Interview with astrophysicist, Dr. Margaret Wilson-Bell, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Wilson-Bell predominantly talks about her research collecting and analyzing data about the sun, and working for the National Research Council. She also explains growing up and attending university in Edinburgh, and how she couldn’t find a job there due to her status as a single woman. Ainley and Wilson-Bell also tell stories about the mixed experience of women in science.

Jean L. Briggs Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Jean L. Briggs for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Briggs talks about her childhood and her education at Vassar College, Boston University, and Harvard. Predominantly, Briggs discusses her experience doing 17 months of fieldwork in remote northern Inuit communities, and her work at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

Jane Young Interview

Interview with ethnobotanist, Dr. Jane Young, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Young begins by explaining how she became interested in studying ethnobotany, and her experience working with research participants in the field. Ainly and Young also discuss environmental conservation, the methodology of ethnobotanical interviews, and how society’s value of ethnobotany has changed over time.

Heather Harris Interview

Interview with Metis anthropologist, Dr. Heather Harris, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." The interview was conducted by Ainly’s research assistant Anna-Stina Kjellstrom. Harris talks about how as a Cree-metis woman, she became interested in anthropology through hearing oral histories from her family. She touches on the value of oral histories as authoritative sources of information, access she had to informants in communities, and conceptions of knowledge and expertise in indigenous communities compared to Western views.

Hannah Gay Interview

Interview with chemist, Dr. Hannah Gay for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Gay discusses her academic career, including her experience as a chemist working at SFU, including her friendship with fellow chemist Maggie Benston. She discusses Benston’s Marxist-feminist writings and activism while at SFU, and some of the criticism she faced for her outspoken views. Also discussed is Maggie’s illness and her twin sister, Marian.

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