Naomi Weisstein has generously contributed several memoir pieces to The "Second Wave" and Beyond.  They are listed below her biographical information.  Some of them are a part of the wonderful Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory website; we provide links here.

Brief Biographical Sketch

    Naomi Weisstein, B.A. Wellesley (1961 with honors), PhD Harvard (1964 with distinction) NSF Post Doctoral Fellow, Committee on Mathematical Biology, University of Chicago (1964-65) is a Guggenheim Fellow (1979-80) and Professor Emerita of Neuroscience and Psychology (SUNY at Buffalo). She has published over 60 scientific articles in such journals as Science, Vision Research, The Journal of Experimental Psychology, and The Psychological Review, and she has given over 30 colloquia at such places as MIT, Rockefeller University, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania.  Her scientific and other work, archived at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University) has been frequently anthologized. Weisstein is on the editorial boards of Spatial Vision and Cognitive Psychology, and has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Experimental Psychology.  She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Association for Psychological Science.

Weisstein been a feminist activist, organizer, and author since 1962, co-founding the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1969 -1975), doing standup comedy and organizing and playing keyboard in the Chicago's Women's Liberation Rock Band (1970 -73). Her writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Harper's, The Nation, and Newsday, among others. The 1972 vinyl of her Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands has recently been re-mastered and re-released by Rounder Records (2005) under the new title "Papa don't lay that shit on me."  In 1967 she wrote,"Kinde, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female," which has been reprinted in over forty different anthologies, in eight different countries.  It has been characterized by Feminism and Psychology (1963) as "ushering in the emerging field of psychology of women".

More biographical information is available on the Chicago Women's Liberation Union's Herstory website.