Trained in physics and biology, she envisioned new ways that science might be practiced -- free of gendered assumptions.
Evelyn Fox Keller was perhaps best known for her application of feminist theory to science. She did not call for a “feminist science” but rather a “gender-free science.” Evelyn Fox Keller, a physicist and mathematical biologist whose observations of discrimination and bias during her career compelled her to develop a feminist critique of the sciences — and to envision new ways that science might be practiced, free of gendered assumptions — died Sept. 22 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 87.
Taken together, Dr. Keller’s work sought to upend science as it was known. For centuries, objectivity, as exemplified by the rigors of the scientific method, had been the bedrock of all inquiry. And for centuries, objectivity was regarded as a typically male virtue, with subjective traits such as intuition and emotion associated with women.
She demonstrated that “what we think of as rational, objective science actually reflects men’s ways of approaching knowledge,” Deborah Tannen, a best-selling linguist known for her exploration of differences between men and women, once wrote about Dr. Keller’s book “Reflections on Gender and Science.”
Dr. Keller enrolled at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., where she received a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1957.“I fell in love … with a discipline of pure, precise, definitive thought, and with what I conceived of as its ambitions,” she once wrote. “I fell in love with the life of the mind. I also fell in love, I might add, with the image of myself striving and succeeding in an area where women had rarely ventured. It was a heady experience.
Dr. Keller taught over the years at institutions including New York University, the State University of New York at Purchase, Northeastern University in Boston and the University of California at Berkeley in addition to MIT, where she worked for the Program in Science, Technology and Society.
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