Evelyn Keller was always brilliant at dissecting the assumptions imported into scientific description in the form of metaphors – whether in scientific o rpopular discourse. This (quite long) essay on how we write about genes when they keep shape shifting under the inspection of new scientific techniques doesn’t mention her book The Century of the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
The last post on molecular biology reminded me about others who investigated gendered aspects of science a few decades ago. I think the piece below, an early look at Evelyn Fox Keller’s work, is the first thing I wrote on the topic. She’s written a good deal of excellent stuff since, but both the books […]
Feminist science studies was unfailingly interesting in the 1980s and 1990s, though sometimes promised more than it delivered…. Molecular biology is one of the hard cases for a would-be science critic. The approaches, tools and techniques of the molecular biologists, which mainly means the molecular geneticists, are so far in the ascendant in the life […]
