Evelyn Fox Keller
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American physicist, author and feminist
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Evelyn Fox Keller's Degrees
- Bachelors Physics Brandeis University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Evelyn Fox Keller was an American physicist, author, and feminist. She was Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology. Her subsequent research focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.
Evelyn Fox Keller's Published Works
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Published Works
- Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability. (1970) (2942)
- Reflections on Gender and Science (1985) (2161)
- Model for chemotaxis. (1971) (1557)
- Traveling bands of chemotactic bacteria: a theoretical analysis. (1971) (927)
- A feeling for the organism : the life and work of Barbara McClintock (1985) (907)
- The Century of the Gene (2000) (516)
- Feminism and Science (1982) (485)
- Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology (1995) (484)
- Keywords in evolutionary biology (1994) (339)
- Making sense of life : explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines (2003) (294)
- Body/politics : women and the discourses of science (1990) (257)
- Revisiting "scale-free" networks. (2005) (240)
- Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender, and Science, Evelyn Fox Keller. 1992. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, New York, NY. 288 pages. ISBN: 0-415-90524-9 (hc); 0-415-90525-7 (pb). $49.95 (hc); $15.95 (pb (1992) (234)
- A feeling for the organism (1983) (203)
- Secrets Of Life, Secrets Of Death (1992) (157)
- Making Sense of Life (2002) (125)
- The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex To Gender As Nature Is To Science? (1987) (116)
- The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture (2010) (110)
- Models of and Models for: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Biology (2000) (110)
- The century beyond the gene (2005) (97)
- Reading the Slender Body (2013) (87)
- From gene action to reactive genomes (2014) (85)
- Models, Simulation, and 'computer Experiments' (2011) (81)
- Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History of Self-Organization, Part Two. Complexity, Emergence, and Stable Attractors (2009) (76)
- Gender and Science (2019) (69)
- Physics and the emergence of molecular biology: A history of cognitive and political synergy (1990) (67)
- Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History of Self-Organization, Part One (2008) (62)
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for chemotactic bands (1975) (60)
- Producing Petty Gods: Margaret Cavendish's Critique of Experimental Science (1997) (59)
- Genes, Genomes, and Genomics (2011) (57)
- Understanding Development (2020) (51)
- 13 The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems' (2007) (48)
- Traveling bands of chemotactic bacteria revisited (1976) (47)
- Drosophila embryos as transitional objects: the work of Donald Poulson and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. (1996) (43)
- 4 The Origin, History, and Politics of the Subject Called “Gender and Science”: A First Person Account (1995) (40)
- Gender and Science: Origin, History, and Politics (1995) (40)
- The Postgenomic Genome (2015) (40)
- Competition and Feminism: Conflicts for Academic Women (1987) (38)
- Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin (2001) (35)
- Ecosystems, Organisms, and Machines (2005) (34)
- The Mind’s Eye (1983) (34)
- Assessing the Keller-Segel model: How has it fared? (1980) (32)
- Developmental Biology as a Feminist Cause? (1997) (28)
- Knowing As Making, Making As Knowing: The Many Lives of Synthetic Biology (2009) (28)
- A clash of two cultures (2007) (27)
- Between Language and Science: The Question of Directed Mutation in Molecular Genetics (2015) (26)
- Feminism, Medicine, and the Meaning of Childbirth (2013) (25)
- Language and ideology in evolutionary theory: reading cultural norms into natural law (1991) (24)
- Science, Objectivity, and Feminist Values (1988) (24)
- Feminist Perspectives on Science Studies (1988) (22)
- Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (2017) (22)
- Cognitive repression in contemporary physics (1979) (22)
- Mathematical aspects of bacterial chemotaxis. (1974) (21)
- It Is Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics (2009) (21)
- Decoding the Genetic Program: Or, Some Circular Logic in the Logic of Circularity (2000) (21)
- What Does Synthetic Biology Have to Do with Biology? (2009) (21)
- The Force of the Pacemaker Concept in Theories of Aggregation in Cellular Slime Mold (2015) (21)
- Mrs Jane Sharp: midwifery and the critique of medical knowledge in seventeenth‐century England (1995) (19)
- Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (2007) (19)
- Female Circulation: Medical Discourse and Popular Advertising in the Mid-Victorian Era (2013) (18)
- Towards a science of informed matter. (2011) (18)
- Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature’s Secrets (1986) (18)
- Working it Out : 23 Women, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk About their Lives and Work (1977) (17)
- Feminism as an Analytic Tool for the Study of Science. (1983) (17)
- Is There an Organism in This Text (1995) (17)
- Reproduction and the central project of evolutionary theory (1987) (17)
- Whole Bodies, Whole Persons?Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology (2007) (16)
- What impact, if any, has feminism had on science? (2004) (16)
- Science and Its Critics. (1995) (16)
- Fractured Images of Science, Language, and Power: A Postmodern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight? (1991) (16)
- Secrets of God, nature, and life1 (1990) (15)
- DDS: Dynamics of Developmental Systems (2005) (14)
- Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent Activity of Matter (2011) (14)
- From Individuals to Populations (2010) (13)
- Statistics of the Thermal Radiation Field (1965) (13)
- The Paradox of Scientific Subjectivity (1994) (13)
- Marrying the Premodern to the Postmodern: Computers and organisms after World War II (2004) (13)
- Developmental Robustness (2002) (13)
- Conflict between Positive and Negative Feedback as an Explanation for the Initiation of Aggregation in Slime Mould Amoebae (1970) (13)
- The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? (2015) (12)
- Embryonic Individuals: The Rhetoric of Seventeenth-Century Embryology and the Construction of Early-Modern Identity (2000) (12)
- Cognitive functions of metaphor in the natural sciences (2020) (12)
- Topics in the philosophy of biology (1977) (12)
- Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Science and Culture (1992) (11)
- Thinking about Biology and Culture: Can the Natural and Human Sciences Be Integrated?: (2016) (11)
- Holding the center of feminist theory (1989) (9)
- Nature and the Natural (2008) (9)
- Contenders for life at the dawn of the twenty-first century: approaches from physics, biology and engineering (2007) (9)
- Rethinking the Meaning of Biological Information (2009) (8)
- Demarcating public from private values in evolutionary discourse (1988) (8)
- Structures of Heredity. Review of Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb, Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution, The Lamarckian Dimension. (1998) (8)
- Lexicons, Kind-Terms, and World Changes (2012) (8)
- What Are Climate Scientists to Do (2011) (8)
- On the need to count past two in our thinking about gender and science (1987) (8)
- GENDER AND SCIENCE An Update (2010) (8)
- Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism (1993) (7)
- Booting Up Baby (2007) (7)
- Climate science, truth, and democracy. (2017) (7)
- Making sense of life : explanation in developmental biology (1999) (7)
- Evelyn Fox Keller (2003) (6)
- Feminism, Science, and Postmodernism (1989) (6)
- Boston colloquium for philosophy of science (2002) (5)
- Elusive locus of control in biological development: genetic versus developmental programs. (1999) (5)
- Mind, Nature, and Masculinity@@@Reflections on Gender and Science. (1986) (5)
- Statistical Mechanics of the Moment Stress Tensor (1966) (5)
- Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 (review) (2008) (5)
- Active matter, then and now (2016) (5)
- Historical Perspectives: The Equal Rights Amendment Conflict in the 1920s (2015) (5)
- Just What is so Difficult About the Concept of Gender as a Social Category? (Response to Richards and Schuster) (1989) (5)
- Science as a Medium for Friendship: How the Keller–Segel Models Came About (2006) (5)
- Making up for losses: The workings of gender in William Harvey's de generatione animalium (1998) (5)
- SINGLE-BURST ANALYSIS FOR SEMICONSERVED PHAGE. (1964) (5)
- Baconian Science: A Hermaphroditic Birth (1980) (5)
- The Gender/Science System: Response to Kelly Oliver (1988) (5)
- Goodbye nature vs nurture debate (2010) (4)
- A Shared Epistemological Tradition (1989) (4)
- Forum for scientific method in biology: transcript (2009) (4)
- Statistical Mechanics of a Fluid in an External Potential (1966) (4)
- Kuhn, Feminism, and Science? (1998) (4)
- Women in Science (1987) (4)
- A mathematical description of biological clocks. (1967) (3)
- Split Affinities: The Case of Interracial Rape (2015) (3)
- Pot-holes Everywhere: How (not) to Read my Biography of Barbara McClintock (2014) (3)
- Decoding the Human Genome Project: an interview with Evelyn Fox Keller. (1991) (3)
- A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem (review) (1996) (3)
- "That Sublimest Juyce in Our Body": Bloodletting and Ideas of the Individual in Early Modern England (2007) (3)
- Genetics, reductionism, and the normative uses of biological information: response to Kevles. (1991) (3)
- The Body of a New Machine: Situating the Organism between Telegraphs and Computers (1994) (3)
- Parisian Letters: Between Feminism and Deconstruction (2015) (2)
- 4. Language in Action: Genes and the Metaphor of Reading (2002) (2)
- Assessing Risk in the Absence of Quantifiability (2015) (2)
- Feminist Perspectives On Science Studies (1988) (2)
- Stick to your guns (2011) (2)
- The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts (2017) (2)
- Nature, Nurture, and the Human Genome Project (2021) (2)
- Letter: traveling bands of chemotactic bacteria revisited. (1976) (2)
- Thinking about Biology and Culture: Can the Natural and Human Sciences Be Integrated? (2016) (2)
- Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Origin of Life (2009) (2)
- Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World (2018) (2)
- Science and Power for What (1984) (1)
- Physics in Biology—Has D’Arcy Thompson Been Vindicated? (2018) (1)
- Language Matters—in Science, as in Science Studies (2017) (1)
- Feminism, Science, and Democracy (2015) (1)
- Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China (2017) (1)
- Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology (2017) (1)
- Cold Spring Harbor (1995) (1)
- Cultures without culturalism (2017) (1)
- Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 15001870. Edited by Staffan Mller-Wille and Hans-Jrg Rheinberger (Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2007) 496 pp. $50.00 (2008) (1)
- Genes, genomes, and codes: revisiting some key terms with multiple meanings (2016) (1)
- GENDER AND SCIENCE: THE DIFFERENCE FEMINISM HAS MADE (2005) (1)
- Book Review:A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology Scott Gilbert (1993) (1)
- Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria (2015) (1)
- Book review:The Molecular Gaze:Art in the Genetic Age (2004) (1)
- Worrying about Essentialism: From Feminist Theory to Epistemological Cultures (2017) (1)
- Metodart: Pere Salinas: retórica del azul (2015) (0)
- Interview with Dr Evelyn Fox Keller [Interview by Marleen Wynants]. (2005) (0)
- The future of human nature: a symposium on the promises and challengesof the revolutions in genomics and computer science, April 10, 11, and 12, 2003 (2004) (0)
- Bridging the culture gap between the mathematical and life sciences (2004) (0)
- Physicists come from a tradition of looking for all-encompassing laws, but is this the best approach to use when probing complex biological systems? (2007) (0)
- The many roads that lead to science (2005) (0)
- Language, gender and science. (1996) (0)
- ""The kinds of" individuals" one finds in evolutionary biology (1993) (0)
- Part V. Summary (1999) (0)
- Economics, Climate, and Values: An Integrated Approach (2010) (0)
- Nature and Nurture as Alternatives (2010) (0)
- The Nature of Life: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy and Science: Creating “real life” (2010) (0)
- Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist John Brockman (2005) (0)
- Tetragrammic Numbers: Gematria and the Line Total of the 1674 Paradise Lost (1986) (0)
- 16. Booting Up Baby (2019) (0)
- The sound of distant drumming (2010) (0)
- Ecosystems, O)rganisms, and Machines (2005) (0)
- Brian Rotman.Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being. Foreword by, Timothy Lenoir. xxxiv + 177 pp., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2008. $21.95 (paper). (2009) (0)
- Behaviour of promising species for fuelwood production in Eldorado, Misiones. Fourth contribution. (1999) (0)
- Introduction : Sex education (2018) (0)
- Science's Gender Gap (1985) (0)
- Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture by Jutta Gisela Sperling (review) (2018) (0)
- In the service of “truth” and “victory”: Geometry and rhetoric in the political works of Thomas Hobbes (1992) (0)
- Choosing Nature over Nurture (1983) (0)
- Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Biology (2008) (0)
- Response to Comments on “Globalization, Scientific Lexicons, and the Future of Biology” (2017) (0)
- 6 Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after World War II (2020) (0)
- The medium ; The telephone etc. (2000) (0)
- Introduction: January 4, 1990 (2015) (0)
- 3 Genes as Difference Makers (2012) (0)
- [Science and gender, feminism and history of science: interview with Evelyn Fox Keller]. (2022) (0)
- Doing justice to allosteric regulation. (2015) (0)
- University of Missouri (1936–1941) (1995) (0)
- Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (1977) (0)
- Letters: Religion and the Academy (1997) (0)
- Between Science and History (2007) (0)
- 11 Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin (2020) (0)
- Watson's Needle: Rosalind Franklin and DNA, by Anne Sayre (1975) (0)
- Assessing Risk in the Absence of Quantifiability (2015) (0)
- Practices of generalization in mathematical physics, in biology, and in evolutionary strategies (2016) (0)
- Bucking the system (2000) (0)
- Dark Side of Science: Heraclitean Fire: Sketches From a Life Before Nature, by Erwin Chargaff (1979) (0)
- Changing the Question to One That Does Make Sense – From Trait to Trait Difference (2010) (0)
- Books Rreceived (2003) (0)
- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering (2010) (0)
- In and out of the Nuclear Family (1996) (0)
- Motherhood and the Marketplace: A Feminist View: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (1979) (0)
- La question de Schrödinger (2004) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2009) (0)
- Co-winner of the 1991 Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writing Award (2015) (0)
- Reaching for the Stars (1984) (0)
- Evelyn Fox Keller Science and Gender (1994) (0)
- What’s to Be Done? (2010) (0)
- Physics in Biology—Has D’Arcy Thompson Been Vindicated? (2018) (0)
- ANNOUNCEMENTS (1990) (0)
- 5. La science ne doit plus se décliner au masculin. (2009) (0)
- Classical Medicine & the Origins of Gynecology: A Review Essay Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium; Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (2008) (0)
- Michel Morange.The Misunderstood Gene. Translated byMatthew Cobb.xii+222 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2001. $24.95. (2003) (0)
- Ryan J. Stark.Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth‐Century England. x + 234 pp., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009. $69.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Active matter, then and now (2016) (0)
- Lewis Carroll: A Study Of Mathematical Inhibition (1980) (0)
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