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Making Sense of My Life in Science
A Memoir
by EVELYN FOX KELLER View author's profile page

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Evelyn Fox Keller's memoir is the story of a wandering academic, who has managed a long and successful career without ever quite answering the question of who she is or where she belongs, insisting throughout on multiple identities and rejecting the very idea of a disciplinary home. Her focus is on the opportunities and costs of never settling into a clear and recognizable place in the world.
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Evelyn Fox Keller trained as a theoretical physicist at a time when women didn't "do physics." Unable to find a supportive advisor, she moved into the new field of molecular biology just getting off the ground. After receiving her doctorate, she returned to physics but then took another swerve, joining a small interdisciplinary effort to develop mathematical models of biological systems. This work led to her appointment to a special position as Professor of Mathematics and Humanities at Northeastern University. When second-wave feminism arrived in the 1960s, it changed the lives of everyone in its path. It certainly changed Keller's, leading her beyond the borders of science altogether. Eventually she began to think of herself as a dual citizen of the proverbial two cultures—science and humanities. The trajectory was hardly straightforward, nor was it conducive to building a conventional career, or even getting a job. Now in hindsight, after an illustrious career and having published fourteen books, Keller reflects on her life, influences, successes and struggles along her trailblazing path as a scientist and feminist.
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About the author


EVELYN FOX KELLER is professor emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at M.I.T. Throughout her career, she has pushed the boundaries of science, boldly crossing the borders that separate disciplines both within the sciences and between the sciences and the humanities. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Dan David Prize, and numerous honorary degrees, she is the author of fourteen books.
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Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Subgenre:Science & Technology

Language:English

Pages:226

Paperback ISBN:9780999770580


Overview


Evelyn Fox Keller's memoir is the story of a wandering academic, who has managed a long and successful career without ever quite answering the question of who she is or where she belongs, insisting throughout on multiple identities and rejecting the very idea of a disciplinary home. Her focus is on the opportunities and costs of never settling into a clear and recognizable place in the world.

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Description


Evelyn Fox Keller trained as a theoretical physicist at a time when women didn't "do physics." Unable to find a supportive advisor, she moved into the new field of molecular biology just getting off the ground. After receiving her doctorate, she returned to physics but then took another swerve, joining a small interdisciplinary effort to develop mathematical models of biological systems. This work led to her appointment to a special position as Professor of Mathematics and Humanities at Northeastern University. When second-wave feminism arrived in the 1960s, it changed the lives of everyone in its path. It certainly changed Keller's, leading her beyond the borders of science altogether. Eventually she began to think of herself as a dual citizen of the proverbial two cultures—science and humanities. The trajectory was hardly straightforward, nor was it conducive to building a conventional career, or even getting a job. Now in hindsight, after an illustrious career and having published fourteen books, Keller reflects on her life, influences, successes and struggles along her trailblazing path as a scientist and feminist.

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About the author


EVELYN FOX KELLER is professor emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at M.I.T. Throughout her career, she has pushed the boundaries of science, boldly crossing the borders that separate disciplines both within the sciences and between the sciences and the humanities. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Dan David Prize, and numerous honorary degrees, she is the author of fourteen books.
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