🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the per...
Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and metho...
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 proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critica...
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...
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...
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...
The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
McClintock, Barbara....
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 ...
...
(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...
Fifteen Lectures on the Confrontation of Academic Cultures
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...