The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science.
Introduction; Part I Gender and Science: An Update; Part II From Secrets of Life to Secrets of Death; Chapter 3 Secrets of God, Nature, and Life; Chapter 4 Critical Silences in Scientific Discourse: Problems of Form and Re-Form; Chapter 5 Fractured Images of Science, Language, and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight?; Part III Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 7 Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 8 Demarcating Public from Private Values in Evolutionary Discourse; Chapter 9 Between Language and Science: The Question of Directed Mutation in Molecular Genetics; epilogue Epilogue;
