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Evelyn Fox Keller - March 20, 1936 - present

By Bethob6

  • Biography

    Evelyn Fox Keller has come a long way considering her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants that didn't even go to high school. Her initial interest was in psychoanalysis. Her calculus instructor suggested that she major in physics instead. It appealed to her partly because she was good at it and partly because women weren't considered suited for science. This was the beginning of Evelyn's interest in the role of gender in science, although her intent was still to pursue psychoanalysis.

  • Biography Part 2

    Evelyn's plans to enroll in medical school to pursue her interest in psychoanalysis were derailed in her senior year at Brandeis University when she developed an interest in theoretical physics. She attended graduate school at Harvard University, but was not happy there. Harvard at that time was not very accepting of women in science. The feminist movement was gaining steam around that same time, and she started to consider the implications of being a woman in science.

  • Gender and Science

    Evelyn taught her first course in Women's Studies in 1974. In 1977, she wrote "The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics" about her experiences at Harvard. The following year, she wrote her first article on Gender and Science. That led to her book about Barbara McClintock, which was published in 1983. Evelyn explores what it is about science that results in the participants being predominantly males and females are under-represented. Evelyn's works include nuances of her first love, psychoanalysis.

  • Link to Lecture

    Paradigm Shifts and Revolutions in Contemporary Biology. Perf. Evelyn Fox Keller. YouTube. University of King's College, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 20 May 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS74kO4VIBg.

  • Major Works

    Keller, Evelyn Fox. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. New York: W.H. Freeman / Owl Book, 2003. Print.
    Keller, Evelyn Fox, and David A. Hollinger. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. Print.
    Keller, Evelyn Fox. The anomaly of a woman in physics. na, 1977.

  • References

    Moyers, Bill. "Evelyn Fox Keller: The Gendered Language of Science." BillMoyers.com. N.p., 06 May 1990. Web. 20 May 2017. http://billmoyers.com/content/evelyn-fox-keller/.
    Whitton, Natasha. "Evelyn Fox Keller: Historical, Psychological and Philosophical Intersections in the Study of Gender and Science." Women Writers, 22 July 1999. Web. 20 May 2017. http://www.womenwriters.net/archives/whittoned1.htm.