you can read about her below:
DEATH OF NAOMI WEISSTEIN 10/16/1939-3/26/15
ME patient since 1983
By her husband, Jesse Lemisch
Pioneering neuroscientist, among the initiators of the Cognitive Revolution:
See her “Neural Symbolic Activity” in Science, and many other papers
Feminist
Co-founder, Chicago Westside Group (1967)
Many papers available at Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory website
A sampling:
“Kirche, Kuche, Kinder as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female” (40+ reprints around the world)
“’How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach a Big Class of Men?’ and Other Adventures of a Woman in Science.” https://www.uic.edu/…/cwluhe…/CWLUMemoir/naomiscientist.html
Weisstein essay in Feminist Memoir Project
“Our Gang of Four,” https://books.google.com/books…
Rock Musician
Founder, Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 1970-73. Weisstein’s history of the band: newpol.org/content/chicago-women’s-liberation-rock-band-1970-1973
Brief clip of the band in Mary Dore’s film, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”
Two records: “Mountain Moving Day,””Papa, Don’t Lay that shit on me.”
Comedian
Came this close to running off with Second City in the 1960s.
Beloved Wife of Jesse Lemisch 1965-2015
Survival and Death
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, 1992http://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 ovarian cancer at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. In every way possible, LH expressed ignorance and contempt for her underlying ME/CFS. (See Gina Kolata’s “Doctors Strive to do Less Harm, New York Times, February 18, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/…/doctors-strive-to-do-less-harm-by-…, which, without naming LH, fit precisely the harms committed by the institution; not a soul who I encountered at LH took cognizance of this front-page article, published during Naomi’s hospitalization.) Whatever strength Naomi had assembled during her 30+ years of careful nursing fell victim to Lenox Hill’s abuse and utter inattention to this underlying condition. Discharged in grim condition on March 17, in agony, she required hospitalization only two days later. We chose Mount Sinai Hospital, a far more humane institution. But it was too late: she died at 11 PM Thursday March 26. As death approached, I sang to her: “September Song,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and, as she had always sung to me in troubled times, “Hush, Little Baby, Don’t You Cry.”
DEATH OF NAOMI WEISSTEIN 10/16/1939-3/26/15
ME patient since 1983
By her husband, Jesse Lemisch
Pioneering neuroscientist, among the initiators of the Cognitive Revolution:
See her “Neural Symbolic Activity” in Science, and many other papers
Feminist
Co-founder, Chicago Westside Group (1967)
Many papers available at Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory website
A sampling:
“Kirche, Kuche, Kinder as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female” (40+ reprints around the world)
“’How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach a Big Class of Men?’ and Other Adventures of a Woman in Science.” https://www.uic.edu/…/cwluhe…/CWLUMemoir/naomiscientist.html
Weisstein essay in Feminist Memoir Project
“Our Gang of Four,” https://books.google.com/books…
Rock Musician
Founder, Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 1970-73. Weisstein’s history of the band: newpol.org/content/chicago-women’s-liberation-rock-band-1970-1973
Brief clip of the band in Mary Dore’s film, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”
Two records: “Mountain Moving Day,””Papa, Don’t Lay that shit on me.”
Comedian
Came this close to running off with Second City in the 1960s.
Beloved Wife of Jesse Lemisch 1965-2015
Survival and Death
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, 1992http://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 ovarian cancer at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. In every way possible, LH expressed ignorance and contempt for her underlying ME/CFS. (See Gina Kolata’s “Doctors Strive to do Less Harm, New York Times, February 18, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/…/doctors-strive-to-do-less-harm-by-…, which, without naming LH, fit precisely the harms committed by the institution; not a soul who I encountered at LH took cognizance of this front-page article, published during Naomi’s hospitalization.) Whatever strength Naomi had assembled during her 30+ years of careful nursing fell victim to Lenox Hill’s abuse and utter inattention to this underlying condition. Discharged in grim condition on March 17, in agony, she required hospitalization only two days later. We chose Mount Sinai Hospital, a far more humane institution. But it was too late: she died at 11 PM Thursday March 26. As death approached, I sang to her: “September Song,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and, as she had always sung to me in troubled times, “Hush, Little Baby, Don’t You Cry.”