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

by Evelyn Fox Keller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415905251
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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;