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Complete 8 page APA formatted essay: Dark Lady: An Holistic Perspective.Download file to see previous pages... As the paper discusses&nbsp.Brenda Maddox spoke from a post-feminist perspective, two and

Complete 8 page APA formatted essay: Dark Lady: An Holistic Perspective.

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As the paper discusses&nbsp.Brenda Maddox spoke from a post-feminist perspective, two and a half decades after Sayre, and revealed details that shed light on things glossed over by Sayre, due to her socio-cultural and historical limitations, and clarified distortions that Watson so eagerly revealed. For example, Maddox addresses Rosalind’s sexuality, revealing how she had feelings for a man who was having an affair with her colleague, and how she seemed very awkward and naïve.This study stresses that Sayre surely knew about this, as her friend, but was not in a position to talk about it because it was not politically correct for a serious feminist of the mid 1970’s to discuss something so personal and awkward, which might detract from a great woman scientist’s dignity and perceived competence.&nbsp.Maddox’s revelation of Franklin’s sexuality showed she was not the sexless, inept nerd, painted by Watson. She had feelings, however much Watson portrayed her as a cold fish. Maddox, writing at a time when gender discrimination in Science was understood to be there and understood to be something we need to change, was not bound by the cultural context from which Sayre wrote, a context in which there was widespread denial about gender discrimination in the field of Science. She was not bound by the values and stereotypes of an era through which lens Watson experienced and insulted Franklin.&nbsp.Being more free of the forces motivating Sayre’s and Watson’s agenda, Maddox was able to put energy in clarifying details....

Maddox’s revelation of Franklin’s sexuality showed she was not the sexless, inept nerd, painted by Watson. She had feelings, however much Watson portrayed her as a cold fish. Maddox, writing at a time when gender discrimination in Science was understood to be there and understood to be something we need to change, was not bound by the cultural context from which Sayre wrote, a context in which there was widespread denial about gender discrimination in the field of Science. She was not bound by the values and stereotypes of an era through which lens Watson experienced and insulted Franklin. Being more free of the forces motivating Sayre’s and Watson’s agenda, Maddox was able to put energy in clarifying details. One area of those details involved Randall’s role in the premature revealing of Rosalind’s material to the men who ultimately took credit for an understanding of DNA, critically due to Franklin’s Photo 51. Maddox (Maddox, 2003) explains that Randall had re-assigned the DNA project to Franklin after Wilkins had made it a low priority. Apparently Randall did not clarify this properly to Wilkins, and Wilkins thought he was going to be Rosalind’s supervisor, not her competitor. As her supervisor, he might be defended for prematurely showing her photo 51 to Crick and Watson. Perhaps if he had been clearer on his working relationship to Franklin, this might have been avoided. But Randall was not the only unfortunate catalyst in this fiasco. Another scientist at Cambridge, Max Perutz, handed over a confidential report containing Franklin’s notes and photographs (Maddox, 2003). He had access to her work only because he had responsibility to evaluate the lab for the Medical Research Council.

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