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Weisstein brought her feminist activism into her professional life in many ways.
Naomi Weisstein was born in New York to parents Mary Wenk and Samuel Weisstein.

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Power, Resistance and Science

Introduction

Naomi Weisstein has worked in cognitive visual neuroscience since she received her PhD from Harvard in 1964. She pioneered in demonstrating the capacity of simple neural circuitry to figure out complex visual relations, ran head on into the scientific establishment, but went on to see her ideas help to give birth to the cognitive revolution in visual neuroscience. She is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.

Weisstein has been an active feminist since she co-founded the Chicago Westside Group in 1967. She went on to co-found the Chicago Women's Liberation Union and to organize and play keyboard in the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, and to found women's caucuses in several professional associations. She has published on a wide range of feminist topics.

In 1968 Weisstein wrote: "Psychology Constructs the Female; or The Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist."¹ In this paper, she argued that gender is socially

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Naomi Weisstein (1939-2015)

This article memorializes Naomi Weisstein, who passed away on March 26, 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In Chicago, Illinois, Weisstein began what would become a defining feature of her career and legacy-combining feminist political activism with both her academic and personal life pursuits. By the time she began her first faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago in 1966, Weisstein was an outspoken feminist. In 1968, she published her now classic article "Kirche, Kuche, Kinder as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female" (PCF; New England Free Press), wherein she criticized the field of psychology for failing to understand women because of its overreliance on essentialism and biologically based theories, while ignoring the importance of social context. Her critique laid the groundwork for others to explore the social construction of gender, and for second-wave feminism to take hold within the discipline of psychology. Despite all of her varied contributions, it is PCF that helped to define Weisstein's legacy in psychol

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Sadly, VFA learned of the passing of a VFA member and feminist icon, Naomi Weisstein...Her husband, Jesse Lemisch, who has cared for her for many years, was at her side.

Naomi, one of the most brilliant and exciting of the young radical feminists, was also the founder of the first all women's band. She was a pioneering neuroscientist, among the initiators of the Cognitive Revolution.

FROM JESSE LEMISCH

Naomi fell ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1980 and became completely bedridden in 1983. We fought America’s most powerful insurance companies in court and in the press (see Lemisch, “Do They Want my Wife to Die?” New York Times, April 15, 1992 http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/15/opinion/do-they-want-my-wife-to-die.html) and defended her 24/7 home nursing, which continued until the day of her death.

Among her most heroic works are her creative articles in science and feminism, written in this period, entirely from her bed. In March 2015 she was diagnosed with ovaria