Evelyn Fox Keller, Books

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Eddie Yeghiayan

• A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. San Francisco: Freeman, 1983.

  • Reissued in 1993, with "Author's Note on the Tenth Anniversary Edition."

  • Translated into Spanish by Carlos Sánches-Rodrigo as Seducida por lo vivo: vida y obra de Barbara McClintock. Barcelona: Fontalba, 1984.

  • Translated into French by Rose-Marie Vassallo-Villaneau as L'Intuition du vivant: la vie et l'oeuvre de Barbara McClintock. Paris: Deuxtemps Tierce, 1988.

  • Translated into Dutch by P.M. Moll-Huber as Heel het organisme: leven en werk van Barbara McClintock, Nobelprijswinnares fysiologie en medicijnen 1983. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1986.

  • Translated into Italian.

  • Translated into Japanese.

  • Translated into Chinese as Yu mi tien li ti hsien chih: i lei i chuan hsueh chia Mai-ko-lin-to-ko. Tai-pei shih: Tien hsia wen hua chu pan ku fen yu hsien kung ssu: Tsung ching hsiao Li ming tu shu yu hsien kung ssu, 1995.

• Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1985.
  Contents:
  

  Introduction:3-13.
  Part One: Historical Couplings Of Mind And Nature:15-65.
  
  • Love and Sex in Plato's Epistemology:21-32.
    
  • Baconian Science: The Arts of Mastery and Obedience:33-42.
    
  • Spirit and Reason at the Birth of Modern Science:43-65.
    
  Part Two: The Inner World of Subjects and Objects:67-126.
  
  • Gender and Science:75-94.
    
  • Dynamic Autonomy: Objects as Subjects:95-114.
    
  • Dynamic Objectivity: Love, Power, and Knowledge:115-126.
    
  Part Three: Theory, Practice, and Ideology in the Making of Science:127-176.
  
  • Cognitive Repression in Contemporary Physics:139-149.
    
  • The Force of the Pacemaker Concept in Theories of Aggregation in Cellular Slime Mold:150-157.
    
  • A World of Difference:158-176.

  • "Introduction" published in Boston Review (December 1984).

  • Translated into German by Bettina Blumenberg as Liebe, Macht und Erkenntnis. Männliche oder. weibl Wissenschaft. Munich & Vienna: Hanser, 1986.

  • Translated into Italian by Raffaele Petrillo as Sul genere e la scienza. Introduction by Paola M. Menacorda. Saggi rossi. Milan: Garzanti, 1987.

  • Translation into Japanese by Sachiko Ikushima and Keiko Kawashima as Jenda ko kagaku: puraton bekon kara makurintokku e. Tokyo: Kosakusha, 1993.

  • Translated into Dutch by Bab Westerveld as Een Wereld van verschil: beschouwingen over wetenschap. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1987.

  • Translation into Finnish published by Vasta Paino.

  • Translation into Spanish published by Ediciones Alfons el Magnanim.

• Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science. New York & London: Routledge, 1992.
  Contents:
  

  • Gender and Science: An Update:15-36.
    
  • From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death:39-55.
    
  • Secrets of God, Nature, and Life:56-72.
    
  • Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Reform:73-92.
    
  • Fractu red Images of Science, Language, and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight?:93-110.
    
  • Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory:113-127.
    
  • Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory:128-143.
    
  • Demarcating Public from Private Values in Evolutionary Discourse:144160.
    
  • Between Language and Science: The Question of Directed Mutation in Molecular Genetics:16 1-178.

• Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology. The Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.