Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

The essays collected here represent Evelyn Fox Keller's attempts to effect a three-way integration between the insights of feminist theory, the insights of contemporary historians and philosophers of science, and the manifest accomplishments of working scientists.

Evelyn Fox Keller

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;