1st Edition

Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death Essays on Science and Culture

By Evelyn Fox Keller Copyright 1992
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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

Introduction; Part I Gender and Science: An Update; Part II From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death; Chapter 3 Secrets of God, Nature, and Life; Chapter 4 Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Re-Form; Chapter 5 Fractured Images of Science, Language, and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight?; Part III Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 7 Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 8 Demarcating Public from Private Values in Evolutionary Discourse; Chapter 9 Between Language and Science: The Question of Directed Mutation in Molecular Genetics; epilogue Epilogue;

Biography

Evelyn Fox Keller