There has been a great deal of work in feminist studies on 'the literature in the science'. For instance, the methods of literary studies are used to analyse the language of science, yielding provocative arguments, for example, suggesting that science is a story-telling practice. There is literature in science. But is there science in literature? What does it mean to even ask the question? Is literature ever a scientific practice? Do writers simply borrow scientific ideas 'out there', or is science made by them as surely as by scientists working in laboratories and fields? Did men (sic) go to the moon because human beings went there first in literature? How can we cross humanities and science disciplinary boundaries in a way which doesn't assume that one arena precedes the other: that sience precedes language or that language precedes science?
The idea for the workshop - born at one of the Staff/Student seminars jointly organised by Women's Studies at the University of York, and the University College of Ripon and York St John - is to go boldly where little interdisciplinary traffic has gone before.
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