Evelyn Fox KELLER

The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the per...

Reflections on Gender and Science

Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and metho...

Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

Essays on Science and Culture

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history ...

Conflicts in Feminism

Conflicts in Feminism proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critica...

Refiguring Life

Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology

Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for eviden...

Making Sense of Life

Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

What do biologists want? How will we know when we have 'made sense' of life? Explanations in the biological sciences are provisional and partial, judg...

The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

A landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change. As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise aroun...

A Feeling for the Organism

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

McClintock, Barbara....

The Century of the Gene

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians ...

A Feeling for the Organism

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

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Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biograph...

Three Cultures

Fifteen Lectures on the Confrontation of Academic Cultures

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The Century of the Gene

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Making Sense of My Life in Science

A Memoir

Evelyn Fox Keller's memoir is the story of a wandering academic, who has managed a long and successful career without ever quite answering the questio...